John Makransky, PhD, is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, a senior advisor to Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, and a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute. He created the Sustainable Compassion Training model, which supports people in accessing their natural capacities for compassion and awareness. His academic research focuses on the relationship between devotion, compassion, and non-dual wisdom in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, along with ways Buddhist practices can be adapted for modern minds and interfaith learning. In 2000, he was ordained as a Lama and meditation teacher of innate compassion and wisdom in the Nyingma Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. For the past twenty-five years, he has guided modern Buddhists, practitioners from other spiritual traditions, and people in caring professions toward the deeper strength of unconditional love and wisdom.