Jack Petranker

Jack Petranker has been a student of Tarthang Tulku for more than 40 years, and has worked for the Nyingma organizations as an editor, writer, and teacher. A past Dean of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, he is now the Director of the Mangalam Buddhist Research Center and the Center for Creative Inquiry, and has taught mindfulness for decades. He has led retreats on four continents, and he holds degrees from Stanford, Yale Law School, and the University of California at Berkeley.