About
Ranga began meditating at age ten. Over the 25 years that followed, he held senior roles at JP Morgan and Bristol-Myers Squibb, co-founded a venture-backed healthcare technology company that raised $3 million in capital and grew more than 50-fold, and built and delivered sales training programs to over 700 executives at one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms.
He did not come to mindfulness through difficulty or burnout. He came to it early, practiced it consistently across demanding professional environments, and watched what it did — to attention, to relationships, to the texture of ordinary experience. What he observed over time was not subtle: a regular practice of present-moment awareness changes how a person encounters work, conflict, pressure, and other people. The mechanism is neither mystical nor complicated. It is available to anyone, at any time, regardless of circumstance.
Since 2019, he has worked with executives, teams, and individuals across the legal, financial, healthcare, and consulting sectors, delivering workshops, retreats, and coaching grounded in that observation. He speaks on mindfulness, the nature of attention, and the question of why the mind creates suffering — and what to do about it.
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Ranga's training comes from Most Venerable Bhante Dhammajiva Maha Thero, Abbot of the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya forest monastery in Sri Lanka.
Over 36 years of teaching, Bhante has instructed more than 600 monks and guided 30,000 retreatants across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. He has addressed the United Nations in Geneva and Paris. His students span every background — religious and secular, novice and highly experienced.
His most consequential institutional work is Sati Pasala, a secular mindfulness curriculum he founded that has expanded to more than 10,000 schools across Sri Lanka, reaching 4.5 million children and training 250,000 teachers. It ranks among the largest government-integrated mindfulness education programs in the world.
His central argument is straightforward: present-moment awareness is not an acquired skill. It is the baseline condition of human experience — one that most people spend their lives moving away from, and to which anyone, under any circumstances, can return.
Bhante's talks are freely available on YouTube under Universal Mindfulness Village.