John Makransky
John Makransky, PhD, is Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, Senior Academic Advisor for Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal, former president of the Society of Buddhist-Christian studies, and co-founder of the Foundation for Active Compassion and the Courage of Care Coalition. John's academic writings focus on connections between devotion, compassion, and wisdom in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, on adapting Buddhist practices to meet contemporary minds, and on theoretical issues in interfaith learning. In 2000, John was ordained as a Lama in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism--a teacher of innate love and wisdom practices.
John developed the Sustainable Compassion Training model (SCT), to help people in caring roles and professions, Buddhists, and those in other spiritual traditions generate a more sustaining and expansive power of care and compassion that avoids mental depletion and compassion fatigue.
Address: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
John developed the Sustainable Compassion Training model (SCT), to help people in caring roles and professions, Buddhists, and those in other spiritual traditions generate a more sustaining and expansive power of care and compassion that avoids mental depletion and compassion fatigue.
Address: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
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To further explore these questions, I want to focus particularly on practices of Christian and Buddhist communities that bring people into an experience of Christ or Buddha as the living presence and power of ultimate reality, not just as a cherished figure remembered from a distant past, but as a continuing presence and liberating power in the present -- in Christian terms, communing with God in Christ and through that with God’s creatures; in Buddhist terms, communing through perfect forms of Buddhahood (Rupakaya) with the transcendent qualities and powers of Buddhahood (Dharmakaya) and thereby with all beings.
To further explore these questions, I want to focus particularly on practices of Christian and Buddhist communities that bring people into an experience of Christ or Buddha as the living presence and power of ultimate reality, not just as a cherished figure remembered from a distant past, but as a continuing presence and liberating power in the present -- in Christian terms, communing with God in Christ and through that with God’s creatures; in Buddhist terms, communing through perfect forms of Buddhahood (Rupakaya) with the transcendent qualities and powers of Buddhahood (Dharmakaya) and thereby with all beings.