Acharya Fleet Maull
Fleet Maull, M.A., Ph.D. candidate, is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, social activist, educator, and author. He began studying Buddhism and practicing meditation in 1969 and met his first Buddhist teacher, Chogyam Trungpa in 1977. Fleet founded three Socially Engaged Buddhism inspired organizations — Prison Dharma Network, Peacemaker Institute International and National Prison Hospice Association. He taught Socially Engaged Buddhism and directed the Center for Contemplative End of Life Care at Naropa University 1999 to 2009 and currently co-directs the Buddhist Chaplaincy program with Roshi Joan Halifax at the Upaya Zen Center. Fleet is a senior teacher (acharya and sensei) in both the Shambhala Buddhist and Zen Peacemaker communities, as a senior student and representative of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman. He is a leading prison activist and outspoken proponent of the Transformative and Restorative Justice alternatives to our shame-based and punitive justice systems, as well as contemplative and transformative approaches to healing and transforming what he sees as a global pandemic of viral, shame-based violence in our human culture.
Fleet leads meditation retreats, bearing witness retreats, street retreats and peacemaker/activist trainings and transformative leadership retreats in Africa, Europe, Latin American and Europe and recently co-led the first bearing witness retreat in Rwanda with his colleague, Sensei Grover Gauntt. Fleet is the author of Dharma In Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull and numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of criminal justice, end of life care, and social change.
