GESHE THUPTEN JINPA (GE-shee TOOP-ten JIN-pa), the principle translator for the Dalai Lama

2: GESHE THUPTEN JINPA (GE-shee TOOP-ten JIN-pa), the principle translator for the Dalai Lama. THUPTEN JINPA was a refugee in India as a child, became a monk at a Tibetan monastery, and is now working on his Ph.D at Cambridge University. He is the translator, editor and annotator of The World of Tibetan Buddhism (Wisdom Publications, written by the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

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