Video: Mind Training Techniques for the West with Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.

Video: Mind Training Techniques for the West with Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.

Thupten Jinpa answers the question of how Mind Training, including meditation and compassion practice can be helpful to people in contemporary societies. Excerpted from a talk given at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA. Thupten Jinpa is the author of A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives, and English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Geshe Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. He is also President of the advisory board of the Mind and Life Institute, dedicated to fostering creative dialogue between the Buddhist tradition and Western science.

A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives is available for purchase on Amazon.