Connection Through Compassion: FREE Community Support Session with Thupten Jinpa, April 17, 2020
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Compassion Institute is offering this free Connection through Compassion drop-in practice session to all those worldwide who wish to come together in community and do our best to meet these challenging times with humanity and compassion.
In this 45-minute session, Compassion Institute founder Thupten Jinpa will offer information, practices, guided meditation, and an opportunity for you to ask questions. In addition, we also provide a dedicated discussion forum for you to connect with others around these topics on an ongoing basis.
Our aim is to provide some relief during this challenging period, offer a possible way to decrease any distress you may be feeling, and shine a light on kindness, generosity and interconnection during this time of heightened concern, uncertainty, and isolation.
This session will take place in a live online group-learning environment. We encourage you to attend from a quiet location with a reliable Internet connection, and to have a microphone available if you are interested in asking questions. You will not be required to appear on video.
If you have any questions about our community support sessions, please contact [email protected].
Thupten Jinpa
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. is the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training™ (CCT©), the Institute’s flagship compassion education offering, developed while Jinpa was at Stanford University.
Jinpa trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University, South India, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree. Jinpa also holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies, both from Cambridge University.
Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama since 1985, and has translated and collaborated on numerous books by the Dalai Lama including the New York Times Bestsellers Ethics for the New Millennium and The Art of Happiness, as well as Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World. His own publications include A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives and translations of major Tibetan works featured in The Library of Tibetan Classics series.
A frequent speaker at various international conferences on mindfulness, compassion, and contemplative practice, Jinpa also serves as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal and is the founder and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He has been a core member of the Mind and Life Institute and its Chairman of the Board since January 2012.