The subject of the award-winning documentary The Prison Sutras, Fleet Maull's story would be unbelievable if it were not true. In his search to recapture the intensity and authenticity of his youth, he immersed himself in the drug culture of the late 60s. Maull eventually left the U.S. for South America. There he spent many years immersed in Buddhist studies as the student of Tibetan Buddhist master, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Naropa University and Shambhala International. Maull continued to support himself as a minor drug smuggler, however, and in 1984 was incarcerated in a federal penitentiary where he served 14 years.

Forced to face his "double life" at last, Maull's time in prison provided the breakthrough experience that transformed his life and allowed him in turn to transform his prison environment. While in prison, he founded two national organizations: the Prison Dharma Network, a nonsectarian Buddhist support network for prisoners and prison staff; and the National Prison Hospice Association, which provides compassionate end-of-life care programs for terminally ill prisoners and their families.

Maull is now an ordained Buddhist priest in the Zen Peacemaker Order and currently serves as the U.S. director of the Peacemaker Community, a global, multi-faith organization engaged in collaborative approaches to spiritually-based social action and peacemaking. He is also part of the faculty at Naropa University, with whom he co-founded the Institute for Transformative Justice, to transform the criminal justice system.

The Reverend Regina Henderson is director of the Pathways Program, also known as the Church and Society Servant Leader Initiative: "Fleet brings an eye-opening ‘real-world' perspective which is truly inspiring." Adds Ed Cheely, Trinity '00 and Director of Development, Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation: "Students found Maull to be an incredibly profound, genuine spiritual seeker when he last came to the Triangle as part of Inward Bound, a conference we cosponsored on higher education and spirituality. His message of seeking the truth and service to others is a powerful one."

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