Saturday, September 27, 2026
10:00 am – 11:30 am Pacific (1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern)
Registration Fee: $35
Early Registration before August 27: $30
Esteemed Buddhist scholar Thupten Jinpa returns to the Sacred Stream to explore how compassion, mindfulness, and the understanding of emptiness can transform the way we relate to difficult emotions and deepen our sense of wellbeing. Jinpa will examine how emotions arise in response to our perceptions of reality, and how mindful awareness can interrupt habitual patterns of anger, attachment, and fear.
Through practical teachings and contemplative insight, Jinpa will demonstrate how “holding” difficult emotions with curiosity and without judgment creates space for greater clarity, compassion, and emotional resilience. This talk will also explore the Buddhist understanding of interdependence and the nature of experience as an antidote to destructive emotional states. Emphasizing compassion as an active, embodied practice, Jinpa will offer ideas for cultivating emotional balance, inner strength, and a more purposeful and compassionate way of living in relationship with others and the world.
All proceeds from this talk go to Gaden Shartse Dokhang Khangston to support the building of a new dorm and prayer hall. Tibetans are invited to attend free of charge.
About Thupten Jinpa
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, McGill University professor, and the Dalai Lama’s principal English translator since 1985. He earned his Ph.D. in religious studies from Cambridge University and received the Geshe Lharam degree as well. He has translated and edited more than ten books by the Dalai Lama and many of his own including A Fearless Heart. He established the Institute of Tibetan Classics, where as president and editor-in-chief, he is helping preserve Tibet’s rich intellectual, spiritual, and artistic heritage through the translation of many of its seminal texts. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and is a visiting research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences at Stanford University.