{"id":600,"date":"2015-05-13T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=600"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:44:01","slug":"the-science-of-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2015\/05\/13\/the-science-of-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Thupten Jinpa | Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thupten_Jinpa\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Geshe Thupten Jinpa<\/strong><\/a> is a former Tibetan Buddhist monk, the principal English translator for the Dalai Lama (since 1985), and a Cambridge-educated scholar (BA, PhD). He spoke in Kaul Auditorium this past weekend as the guest of <a title=\"Maitripa College\" href=\"http:\/\/maitripa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maitripa College<\/strong><\/a> to speak about his new book, &#8220;<a title=\"Powell's Bookstore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/2-9781594632624-0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; He also spoke with <strong>OPB&#8217;s Think Out Loud<\/strong> about <a title=\"The Science of Compassion, 11 May 2015 | Think Out Loud, OPB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/radio\/programs\/thinkoutloud\/segment\/the-science-of-compassion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Science of Compassion<\/strong><\/a> (11 May 2015). You can listen to this interview by following the <strong>The Science &#8230;<\/strong> link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geshe Thupten Jinpa is a former Tibetan Buddhist monk, the principal English translator for the Dalai Lama (since 1985), and a Cambridge-educated scholar (BA, PhD). He spoke in Kaul Auditorium this past weekend as the guest of Maitripa College to speak about his new book, &#8220;A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,7],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-compassion","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}