ABOUT NICHOLAS BERARDELLIMA Religious StudiesNick completed his Masters of Arts in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago, where he studied the intersections between Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Cognitive Science, and modernity. He is an advanced reader of Classical Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan, and is studying Classical Arabic. He now devotes himself full time to the study meditation in a zawiya with a Shaykh of the Qadriyya Sufi tariqa, and travels as part of a non-profit operating in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.