Geshe Thubten Jinpa, Ph.D. Geshe Thubten Jinpa was born in Tibet in 1958. He received his early education and training as a monk at Zongkar Choede Monastery in South India. Later he joined Shartse College of Ganden monastic university, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree. He received his B.A. Honors in Western Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Cambridge University. Since 1985 he has been a principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama. He has translated and edited several books by the Dalai Lama including Good Heart: The Dalai Lama Explores the Heart of Christianity (Routledge, 1996), and most recently, Tibetan Songs of Spiritual Experience, forthcoming from Shambhala, Boston, and Tsongkhapa's Philosophy of Emptiness, forthcoming from Curzon Press, Surrey, UK. From 1996 to 1999, he was the Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Eastern Religion at Girton College, Cambridge University. He is currently establishing the Institute of Tibetan Classics in Montreal, Canada, where he will be president and editor-in-chief of the translation series Classics of Tibet, to be developed and published by the Institute. He lives in Montreal with his wife and two young daughters.