[Unedited] Thupten Jinpa with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 21 February 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Esoteric teachings on reincarnation and consciousness; simple teachings on compassion and ethics. Geshe Thupten Jinpa is a man who finishes the Dalai Lama’s English sentences. Meet this philosopher and former monk, now a husband and father of two daughters, and hear what happens when the ancient tradition embodied in the Dalai Lama meets science and life. This is Krista Tippett’s unedited, unabridged interview with Thupten Jinpa that took place at Emory University. See more at onbeing.org/program/translating-dalai-lama/235

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0:00.0	This is on Beings Unheard Cuts. I'm Krista Tippett. You're listening to my unedited conversation
0:05.5	with Gesha Tupten-Ginpa. He's the Dalai Lama's primary English translator and he's president
0:11.3	of the Institute of Tibetan Classics in Montreal, Canada. I spoke with him on October 18, 2010
0:18.1	at Emory University in Georgia. This interview is included in our show, Translating the Dalai Lama.
0:24.2	View video footage of this conversation and download the MP3 of that produced show at onbeing.org.
1:24.8	I mean, just so that it's going to take too long.
1:44.6	Yeah, I think I did stuff on gear. Not on sale, but off because text messages come in and
1:51.1	you know, I've switched it off. It's off. Thank you. I think you must have an incredibly
1:57.6	grueling schedule. Yeah, when he's swollen as I'm in the gym, it's the concentration that takes up
2:06.0	a fair bit of energy because you never know when he's going to switch into Tibetan or
2:12.1	I was also at the Vancouver event back in October. I never meant to record there. No, just last
2:19.1	year. That's true. And so I watched all I remember one event after the other, one panel discussion
2:27.1	after the other. I was exhausting just to observe that. But we have a lot of people in common and
2:34.8	I've had quite a few people on the show who've been part of the mind-life dialogue. Okay, okay.
2:39.3	Um, Matu and Arthur Zayan's John Kepitson and John Halifax. Yes, he probably knows. And
2:49.5	and also Penny George, do you know Penny? It's one of the, she's a benefactor, I think, of the
2:54.9	mind-life dialogue. She's one of our fun. Do you have any questions of me? Not really. I mean,
3:02.2	other than to request you to simply call me Jimper, that's my first name. I did know that everyone
3:08.6	calls Jimper and down. She said, okay, tell me what I always say. I saw her, I was speaking out in
3:15.2	Sun Valley and she said, okay, you must interview Jimper, you must, but I'd heard that from others as well.
3:22.0	Yeah, so we will hold this two an hour, because I know you're tired and actually I'm tired too.
3:27.5	Yeah, that would be helpful. Yeah. Um, do we have the, oh, here's the clock. Okay,
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