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About Jack Petranker
Jack Petranker is Founder and Senior Teacher at the Center for Creative Inquiry and Director of the Mangalam Buddhist Research Center, both in Berkeley. He has studied and taught in the fields of Buddhism, consciousness, political theory, and mindfulness for more than 40 years.Jack Petranker is Founder and Senior Teacher at the Center for Creative Inquiry and the Director of the Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA. He presents programs in Full Presence Mindfulness, an approach grounded in the teachings of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jack:
February 8, 2024
The House We Live in
The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonation…
June 28, 2021
Open Democracy
Students of American history know that the framers of the Constitution were deeply concerned that the United States would founder on the shoals of mob…
June 25, 2021
Buddhism and Human Flourishing
Western Buddhism is still in its infancy, but as it grows, it is evolving, as has been true in every country where Buddhism was introduced over the pa…
June 8, 2021
Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
In a time when questions about patriotism, nationalism, multiculturalism, and the like are sure to stir up controversy, Steven Smith offers a careful,…
February 18, 2021
How God Becomes Real
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In H…
December 14, 2020
Inward
There is a strong interest today in turning inward to explore the mind and body. Mindfulness meditation exemplifies this trend, and has become increas…
February 20, 2020
Green Buddhism
Stephanie Kaza is Professor Emerita of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and has written widely on Buddhism and the environment. She…
October 24, 2019
Prescribing the Dharma
Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm. Today, when practices drawn from Bud…
August 30, 2019
American Dharma
With Buddhism entering the mainstream of American society, it inevitably encounters the cultural and social forces that make ours a postmodern society…