THUPTEN JINPA was trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden monastic university where he achieved the highest rank of Geshe Lharampa, and he holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Cambridge University. He has been the principal English-language translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama for more than two decades and has translated and edited numerous bestselling books by the Dalai Lama. Jinpa’s own works include Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy and several volumes in The Library of Tibetan Classics. An adjuct professor at McGill University and a scholar at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, Jinpa is currently the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics in Montreal, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.