Wallace, V.

PersonType	Category:Professors Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Vesna
LastName / namelast	Wallace
bio	Vesna A. Wallace is an American educator, Buddhist Studies scholar, translator, and author of several writings. Her research interests focus on Indian Mahāyāna, as well as Vajrayāna Buddhism and Mongolian Buddhism. Currently, Vesna is a Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
associatedwebsite	http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/isa/vwallace.html;http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/?page_id=692
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Sanskrit
languagetarget	English
affiliation	University of California, Santa Barbara
phduniversity	University of California, Berkeley
education	Ph.D. in South and Southeast Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. M.A. in Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, 1988. B.A. in Indology and Comparative Literature, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1979. Postdoctoral Study, Pedagogical State University (Mongolian Language Department, Ulaanbaatar), 2000.
cv	https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Vesna_Wallace_CV.pdf
IsInGyatsa	No
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Vesna Wallace

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.