B. Alan Wallace

PersonType	Category:Translators Category:Western Buddhist Teachers Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Alan
LastName / namelast	Wallace
MainNamePhon	B. Alan Wallace
namealt	Gelong Jhampa Kelsang
bio	Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind. Dr. Wallace, a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation worldwide since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford. (Source)
associatedwebsite	http://www.alanwallace.org/
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
affiliationsecondary	Stanford University
phduniversity	Stanford University
education	Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies, 1995 M.A., Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies, 1992 B.A., Amherst College (Physics, Philosophy of Science, and Sanskrit), summa cum laude, 1987
IsInGyatsa	No
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B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism, language, and culture in 1970 at the University of Göttingen and then continued his studies over the next fourteen years in India, Switzerland, and the United States. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He then taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://sbinstitute.com). He is also Chairman of the Thanypura Mind Centre (http://piamc.com) in Thailand, where he leads meditation retreats. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and Buddhism, including Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity, and Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness.