Vesna Wallace

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FirstName / namefirst	Vesna
LastName / namelast	Wallace
MainNamePhon	Vesna Wallace
bio	Vesna A. Wallace is a senior Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her fields of specialization are Indian Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna Buddhist traditions and Mongolian Buddhism. She has authored and translated four books related to Indian Buddhism, three of which pertain to the Kālacakra tantric tradition in India, published an edited on Mongolian Buddhism titled Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture and Society and more than seventy articles on Indian and Mongolian forms of Buddhism. Her most recent book, which is currently in press by Oxford University Press, is an edited volume titled Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, and her forthcoming, co-authored book is The Text, Image, and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhist Rituals, which will be published by Columbia University Press. (Source Accessed Jan 7, 2021)
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
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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.

Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered.