Thupten Jinpa - Cultivating Compassion
b'In this inaugural episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar, author, and longtime translator for the Dalai Lama, Thupten Jinpa. Their conversation covers many topics, including:\\nhow he met and started working with the Dalai Lama, and insights from 35 years of translating for him;\\nthe relationship of language and mind;\\nhow to deal with self-consciousness;\\nthe dialogue between Buddhism and science;\\nfirst- and third-person ways of investigating the mind that are central to the science of meditation;\\nsources of valid evidence and knowledge;\\nthe mind as more than the brain;\\nthe relevance of compassion for well-being and a program he developed to cultivate it;\\nthe value of mental training in the time of COVID, and other topics.\\nFull show notes and resources'