CURRICULUM VITAE

B. Alan Wallace

Personal website: http://alanwallace.org
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies website: http://sbinstitute.com

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

FIELD RESEARCH ON TIBETAN BUDDHISM IN ASIA

2004 – September: Research in tantric yogic practices in Amdo and Kham

1997 – Summer: Research in Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in western China and central Tibet

1996 – Research in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist meditation in India, Nepal, and Tibet

1992 – Summer: Research in Buddhist contemplative practice in western China and Tibet

1980-1981 - Research in the methods of Buddhist Therav?da meditation in India and Sri Lanka

1977-1979 – Research in Buddhist philosophy in the Center for Higher Tibetan Studies, Mt. Pèlerin, Switzerland

1975-1977 - Research in Buddhist philosophy in Tibet Institute, Rikon, Switzerland

1973-1974 – Research in Buddhist monastic debate in Buddhist School of Dialectics, Dharamsala, India

1971-1973 – Research in the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

President - Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, 2003 - present

Teaching Positions

Lecturer - Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara,
 1997-2001

Lecturer – University of California, Los Angeles, Extension Program, 1997

Visiting Scholar - Psychology Department, Stanford University, 1996-1997

Visiting Scholar - Religious Studies Department, Stanford University, 1995-1996

Lecturer – Stanford University, Innovative Academic Courses Program, 1992

Teaching Intern - Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, 1991
Teaching Assistant - Religious Studies Department, Stanford University, 1990-1994

Lecturer - Inter-term, Amherst College, 1987

Lecturer - Amherst College, American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Amherst, 1984-1986

Lecturer - Centre for Higher Tibetan Studies, Mt. Pèlerin, Switzerland, 1977-1979

Lecturer - Tibet Institute, Rikon, Switzerland, 1975-1977

Research Positions

Project Director - Mind and Life Research Network, 1991 – 1993

Researcher - “Training the Mind” project in psychological and neuroscientific studies of attention and compassion among advanced Tibetan contemplatives in northern India ($500,000 grant from the  Fetzer Institute), 1990-1992

Researcher in refining the attention in the high desert of California, Sept. 2001- March 2002

Consulting, Training, and Investigating Positions

Co-principal investigator and Contemplative Director for the “Shamatha Project,” a longitudinal, scientific study of the effects of three months-long training in attentional and emotional balance. In collaboration with a team of cognitive scientists at the University of California, Davis. Co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute and the University of California, Davis, Center for Mind and Brain, the Department of Psychology, and the Imaging Research Center, 2003 - present

Consultant and trainer for the “Cultivating Emotional Balance” (CEB) project, co- sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco and the Santa Barbara Institute,  2003- present

Consultant to InnerKids Foundation, URL: www.innerkids.org, 2004 - present

Consultant in the research project “Cultivating Emotional Balance in the Classroom: (CEBC), with Patricia Jennings as the Principal Investigator and Margaret Kemeny  as Co-Principal Investigator. Co-sponsored by San Francisco State University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, 2005 – present

Consultant in the Mindful Awareness Project (MAP), a research for developing
 meditative training for the prevention and treatment of ADHD, directed by Dr.  Susan Smalley at the Mindful Awareness Research Center, University of  California, Lost Angeles, School of Medicine, 2004 – 2007

Consultant and meditation trainer for the Mindful Attention Training (MAT) for Epilepsy, a research in the effectiveness of attentional training for reducing
the frequency and intensity of epileptic seizures, directed by Dr. Jerome Pete Engel at the Reed Neurologic Research Center at University of California, Lost Angeles, and Dr. Christoph Baumgartner at the Medical University of Vienna, 2005 - 2006

Consultant for “The Compassion and Attention Longitudinal Meditation (CALM) Study,” with Charles Raison as the Principal Investigator. Co-sponsored by Emory  University and Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, 2007 – present

Consultant in a research project on the relation between meditation and ageing in terms  of emotional maturation, directed by Dr. Laura L. Carstensen, Department of  Psychology at Stanford University, 2004 – 2006

Consultant and interpreter for the project on traditional Tibetan medical treatment of breast cancer, University of California, San Francisco and California Pacific Medical Center, 1995-98

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Books

Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality. Co-authored with Brian Hodel. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2008

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007

Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007

The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind. Forward by Daniel  Goleman. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006

Genuine Happiness: Meditation as a Path to Fulfillment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley& Sons, 2005

Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind-Training. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2001

The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

The Four Immeasurables: Cultivating a Boundless Heart. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004. Re-edition of the Boundless Heart: The Four Immeasurables.  Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1999

Balancing the Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2005. New edition of The Bridge of Quiescence: Experiencing Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. Chicago: Open Court Press, 1998

Tibetan Buddhism From the Ground Up. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1993

The Seven-Point Mind Training. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004. Re-edition of A Passage from Solitude: A Modern Commentary on Tibetan Buddhist Mind  Training. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1992

Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind. Revised edition. Ithaca:  Snow Lion Publications, 1996. Re-edition of Choosing Reality: A Contemplative  View of Physics and the Mind. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989

Spoken Tibetan. Co-authored with Kerrith McKenzie. Mt. Pèlerin, Switzerland: Center for Higher Tibetan Studies, 1985

Edited Books

Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003

Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brainscience and Buddhism. Co-edited with Zara Houshmand & David Livingston. Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1999

Tibetan Tradition of Mental Development. Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. Sherpa Tulku, trans. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1974, 1976, 1978; rev.  eds. 1985 & 1992

 Translated Books

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume III. Co-translator. Tsong-kha-pa, Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2003

The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama. Edited by Arthur  Zajonc, co-translator with Geshe Thupten Jinpa. New York: Oxford University  Press, 2004

The Vajra Essence: From the Matrix of Primordial Consciousness and Pure
Appearances, a Tantra on the Self-arisen Nature of Existence. Düdjom Lingpa. Ashland: Mirror of Wisdom Publications, 2004

Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Edited by Daniel  Goleman, co-translated with Geshe Thupten Jinpa. New York: Bantam Doubleday,  2002

Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamaka Insight Meditation. Gen Lamrimpa. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002. Re-edition of the Realizing Emptiness: The Madhyamaka Cultivation of Insight. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1999

Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga. Gyatrul Rinpoche. Co-translated with Sangye Khandro. Snow Lion Publications, 2002. Re-edition of the Ancient  Wisdom: Nyingma Teachings of Dream Yoga, Meditation and Transformation.  Ithaca:  Snow Lion Publications, 1993

Naked Awareness: Practical Teachings on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Karma Chagmé, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2000

Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine. Dr. Yeshi Dhonden. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2000

Transcending Time: The Kalacakra Six-Session Guruyoga. Gen Lamrimpa. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1999

A Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Atiyoga. Karma Chagmé, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche. Ithaca: Snow  Lion Publications, 1998

Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos. Padmasambhava, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1998

A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life:  A translation from the Sanskrit and Tibetan of Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatra. Co-translated with Vesna A. Wallace. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1997

Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama.  Edited by Francisco J. Varela, co-translated with Geshe Thupten Jinpa. Boston:  Wisdom Publications, 1997

Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health. Edited by Daniel Goleman, co-translated with Geshe Thupten Jinpa.  Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997

Calming the Mind: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on the Cultivation of Meditative
 Quiescence. Gen Lamrimpa. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1995. Re-edition of  the Shamatha Meditation: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Cultivating Meditative Quiescence. Snow Lion Publications, 1992

Worlds in Harmony:  Dialogues on Compassionate Action.  The Dalai Lama with Daniel Goleman, Stephen Levine, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Daniel Brown, Jack Engler,  Margaret Brenman-Gibson and Joanna Macy. Co-translated with Geshe Thupten  Jinpa. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992

Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind. Francisco Varela & Jeremy Hayward, ed. Co-translated with Geshe Thupten Jinpa. Boston:  Shambhala Publications, 1992; 2nd edition 2001

Transcendent Wisdom: A Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, H.H. the Dalai Lama. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1988; 2nd edition, 1994

The Kalachakra Tantra, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1986

Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine. Dr. Yeshi Dhonden. Co- translated with Jeffrey Hopkins. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1986

Commentary on ‘The Eight Verses on the Training of the Mind’ and Commentary on ‘The Song of the Four Mindfulnesses’, H. H. the XIV Dalai Lama. Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1982

The Life and Teachings of Geshé Rabten. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. Reprinted as The Life of a Tibetan Monk by Geshe Rabten. Le Mont-Pèlerin,  Switzerland: Edition Rabten, 2000

The Ambrosia Heart Tantra: A Classic Treatise on Tibetan Medicine. Annotated by Dr. Yeshi Dhonden. Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1976

Waterdrop from the Glorious Sea: A History of the Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Sherab Gyaltsen Amipa. Rikon, Switzerland: Tibet Institute, 1976

Book Chapters

“Buddhism and Science.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. Edited by  Philip Clayton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006

“Buddhist Training in Enhanced Attention Skills.” In Investigating the Mind: The Dalai Lama at MIT. Edited by Arthur Zajonc & Anne Harrington. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006: 37-45

“Vacuum States of Consciousness: A Tibetan Buddhist View.” In Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychology: Transcending the Boundaries. Edited by D.K. Nauriyal.  London: Routledge-Curzon, 2006

“The Scientific Frontier of the Inner Spirit.” In Spiritual Information: 100
Perspectives. Edited by Charles L. Harper, Jr. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005

“The Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion.” In Science, Religion, and the Human Experience. Edited by James Proctor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 (A of the article also available at http://www.srhe.ucsb.edu/lectures/info/wallace.html)

“The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West.” In Westward Dharma: Buddhism  Beyond Asia. Edited by Charles Prebish & Martin Baumann. Berkeley: University  of California Press, 2002

“Four Applications of Mindfulness.” In American Spiritualities: A Reader. Edited by Catherine L. Albanese, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001

“Three Dimensions of Buddhist Studies.” In Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections of Contemporary Buddhist Scholars. Edited by John Makransky & Roger Jackson. London: Curzon Press. 1999

“The Dialectic Between Religious Belief and Contemplative Knowledge in Tibetan Buddhism.” In Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections of Contemporary Buddhist  Scholars. Edited by John Makransky & Roger Jackson. London: Curzon Press.  1999

“Training the attention and exploring consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism.”  In Toward a Science of Consciousness III: The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates. Edited  by Stuart Hameroff, Al Kaszniak, & David Chalmers. Cambridge, MA: MIT  Press,  1999

Journal Articles

“Mental Balance and Well-Being: Building Bridges between Buddhism and Western Psychology.” Co-authored with Shauna Shapiro. In American Psychologist, October 2006, Vol. l61, No. 7: 690-701
(Also available at: http://www.sbinstitute.com/mentalbalance.pdf)

“Choice of Perspectives: Science limited in explanations ” In Science & Theology,  January 2006

“Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being.” Co-authored with Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, and Matthieu Ricard. In Current  Directions in Psychology, 2005, Vol. 14, No. 2: 59-63

“The Scientific and Contemplative Exploration of Consciousness.” In Leonardo  Electronic Almanac, 2003 (http://mitpress2.mit.edu/LEA/)

“A Science of Consciousness: Buddhism (1), the Modern West (0).” In The Pacific  World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Third series, Number 4, Fall  2002: 15-31

“The Scientific Frontier of the Inner Spirit.” Network: The Scientific and Medical Network Review, December 2002, No. 80: 18-19

“Intersubjectivity in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.” In Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8,  No. 5-7, 2001: 209-30

“The Potential of Emptiness: Vacuum States in Physics and Consciousness.” Network: The Scientific and Medical Network Review, December 2001, No. 77: 21-25

“The Buddhist Tradition of S´amatha: Methods for Refining and Examining
 Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, No. 2-3, 1999: 175-187.  Also published in The View from Within: First-person Methods in the Study of  Consciousness. London: Imprint Academic, 1999

“Training the attention and exploring consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism.”
 Consciousness Studies Bulletin, Fall 1998

“The Self and the Limits of Reason in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tradition.” The Tibet Journal, Autumn Vol. XV, No. 3: 59-68, 1990

Magazine Articles

“If You Meet Buddha in Salon.” In Opinions Section of Salon.com, December 9, 2006:
 http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/09/buddha/index.html

“Materialism of the Gaps.”  In Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal, December 2006/January 2007: pp. 8-10

“Religion and Reason: A Review of Sam Harris’s Letter to a Christian Nation.” In Shambhala Sun, October/November 2006: 99-104

“Waking to the Dream.” In Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Winter 2006: 52-57

“Immaterial Evidence.” In Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Spring 2006: 84-86

“Energy Dynamics.” In Life Positive Plus, January 2006: 63-66

“What Is True Happiness?” In Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Fall 2005: 68-73, 119

“Pure Dharma, Barefoot Dharma.” In Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4, Summer 2004: 26-29

“Overlapping Worlds.” In Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Spring 2003: 58- 69

“Science & Buddhism: A Case for collaboration.” In Life Positive Plus, October –  December 2003: 34-37

“Refining the Attention: Focusing on What Matters, Moment by Moment.” In Spiritual & Health: The Soul/Body Connection, Summer 2002: 30-33

“Emptiness on My Mind.” In Mandala: Buddhism in Our Time, June 2001: 25-27

WORK IN PRESS

Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press

Sublime Dharma: Quintessential Instructions on the Breakthrough and Direct Crossingover of Dzogchen. Düdjom Lingpa and Düdjom Rinpoche. Co-translated with  Chandra Easton. Ashland, OR: Mirror of Wisdom Publications

“Toward a Revolution in the Mind Sciences.” In A Natural Scientist: Probing the Dalai Lama's Thought on Science, co-authored with David E. Presti and Arthur Zajonc.  Boston: MIT Press

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