B.
ALAN WALLACE CURRICULUM
VITAE
CONTINUED
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
Scientific and Medical Network 2001 Book Prize for
The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science
of Consciousness, 2001
Honorary Faculty Member Golden Key National Honors
Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
May 1999
John E. Fetzer Institute research grant for editing
the book of essays Buddhism and Science: Breaking
New Ground, 1999
Richard Gere Foundation research grant for editing
the book of essays Buddhism and Science:
Breaking New Ground, 1999
Balm Foundation research grant for translating from
Tibetan and editing the book Healing from
the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine,
1998-1999
John E. Fetzer Institute research grant for writing
the book The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward
a New Science of Consciousness,
1995-1996
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (U. S. Dept. of Education)
for pursuing the Ph.D. at Stanford University, 1990-1994
George Stebbins Moses Memorial Fellowship from Amherst
College for study at Stanford University, 1989-1990
Phi beta kappa, Amherst College, 1987
Moseley Prize in Religion, Amherst College, 1986-1987
John Sumner Rennels Memorial Prize (for zeal in the
pursuit of understanding), Amherst College, 1985-1986
Bassett Prize in Physics, Amherst College, 1984-1985
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Advisory Council for the East-West
Scholars Program in the Tenzin Gyatso Institute, 2007 – present
Member of the Advisory Committee for the
MIT Center for Ethics and Transformative
Values, 2007 – present
Member of the Advisory Board for the World
Happiness Forum, Sydney, Australia, 2007 – present
Co-chair of the Mysticism Group, American
Academy of Religion, 2000-2001
Member of the Steering committee of the Mysticism
Group, American Academy of Religion, 1997-2001
Member of the American Academy of Religion,
1995-2001
Member of the Board of Directors, Mind and
Life Institute, 1990 – present
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“Principles of a Contemplative Science of the
Mind,” sponsored by the Psychiatry and
Spirituality Forum, University
of California, Irvine, January 14, 2008
“Buddhism in the West,” presented at Zanabazar
University, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, July 28, 2007
“The Encounter between Buddhism and Science” and “Buddhist
Views of Mental Well- being,” presented at the
conference “Buddhism & Science.” Co-sponsored
by the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University,
Bangkok and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness
Studies, August 3 – 5, 2007
“Principles of a Contemplative Science,” presented
in the Mind/Supermind lecture series.)Sponsored
by Santa Barbara City College, January 7, 2007. (Available
at http://www.cbs.columbia.edu/weblog/2007/02/super_mind_supe.html)
Panel discussant on “Interpreting Quantum Mechanics:
Buddhist and Christian
Perspectives,” with Charles H. Townes and William
R. Stoeger. Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and
Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion, Washington
D.C., November 19, 2006
“Contemplative Science,” presented at the
conference on “Understanding Mind Inside and
Out: Bridging Buddhism and Modern Science,” sponsored
by the Program in Science and Society, the Emory-Tibet
Partnership, Emory Contemplative
Initiative, Office of the Dean of the College, and the Religion Department,
Emory University, October 12, 2006
Plenary speaker at the meeting “Meditation: Does
It Work?,” Sponsored by the Center for Science
and Worldview at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands,
September 19, 2006
“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring
Consciousness,” a plenary Experiential Psychology
Section of the British Psychological Society at St Anne’s College,
Oxford, September 17, 2006
“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring
Consciousness, presented ” at the “Science,
Mind and Buddhism” Seminar, with H. H. the Dalai
Lama, in Santiago, Chile. Sponsored by the University
of Valparaiso and the University of Chile.
(http://www.dalailama.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Item id=57)
“Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences,” presented
at Zentrum für
Neurowissenschaft, Zürich, Switzerland, June 15, 2006
“From Cognitive Science to a Science of Consciousness,” presented
at Colorado College. Sponsored by Religion Department,
Psychology Department, and Asian Studies Department,
January 26, 2006
“Naturalizing the Mind Sciences,” a keynote
lecture at the conference on
“Mind & Reality: A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Consciousness,”
Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia
University, February 25-26, 2006 (http://mindandreality.org/seminarkey.html
)
“Toward a Science of Contemplative Practice: Issues,
Findings, and Experiential Training in Meditative
Quiescence,” co-presented with Dr. Clifford Saron
at the “Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference.
Sponsored by the University of Arizona, Tucson,
April 2, 2006
“Unmasking Idols in Religion and Science” and “Dependent
Origination in Buddhism and Science,” presented
at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, in La Normale University,
Pisa, April 26- 27, 2006
“Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being,” presented
at the conference on “Gross National Happiness:
Bhutan’s Unique Approach to Social and Economic
Progress,” University of California, Berkeley,
co-sponsored by Swissnex, Annex of the Consulate
General of Switzerland, January 24, 2006
Discussant at the conference “William James Revisited?
The Importance of William James for Buddhism and
Science,” Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions
at Leiden University, September 21, 2006
“A Buddhist View of Optimal Mental Health,” University
of Virginia School of
Medicine, January 27, 2005
(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6253109357337062095&q=b+alan+wallace)
“Principles of a Buddhist Science of Mind,” University
of Virginia Department of Religious Studies and the Tibetan
Himalayan Digital Library, January 27, 2005
“Cognitive Science Dialogue: Consciousness East
and West,” a debate with John Searle, Cognitive
Science Program, Northwestern University, January 14,
2005 (Viewable at http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/paller/home/dialogue/)
“Meta-cognition in Real Time and As Short-term
Memory,” Center for Mind and Brain, University
of California, Davis, March 18, 2005
“A Buddhist View of Craving and Choice,” presented
at the conference His Holiness the Dalai Lama on “Craving,
Suffering, and Choice: Spiritual and Scientific Explorations
of Human Experience,” Stanford
University, November 5, 2005
“Beyond Idolatry: Where Science and Spirituality
Converge,” presented at the John Main Centre for
Meditation, Georgetown University, Washington DC, November
7, 2005
“The Buddhist Science of Meditation,” presented
at the conference “Mind and Life XIII, “Investigating
the Mind: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation– Exchanges
between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral/Medical Sciences on the Potentialfor
Healing Suffering and Disease,” Johns Hopkins University, Washington
DC, November 8 - 10, 2005
“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring
Consciousness,” the First Annual Brown University
Mary Interlandi ’05 Memorial Lecture on
Contemplative Studies, Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, Brown University,
April 18, 2005
“The Buddhist Investigation of Consciousness,” presented
at the “Symposium on the
East-West Encounter: Eastern and Western Perspectives
on Consciousness, Spirituality, Healing, and World Peace.” Sponsored
by the Asian American Cultural Center, Rutgers University,
October 7, 2005
“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring
Consciousness,” presented at
the Summer Program for Scientists. Sponsored by Mind & Life
Summer Research Institute, Garrison, NY, June 26- July
1, 2005
Three lecture-series: “Scientific and Contemplative
Views of Energy,” “Observing the Mind:
A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness,” and “Three
Dimensions of Consciousness: A Buddhist Phenomenology
of Mind,” presented at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
in Pisa, Italy, June 21- 23, 2005
“Paths to Genuine Happiness,” Rio de Janeiro’s
State University, Brazil, June 8, 2005
Three lecture-series: “Choosing Reality: Physics,
Meditation, and Buddhism,” “Meditation
Practice,” and “Ethics, Science, and Meditation,” presented
at the Brazilian Conference of Meditation, 14 Curitiba,
June 11-12, 2005
“A Buddhist View of Optimal Mental Health,” the
inaugural lecture in the series “Exploring
the Mind: Buddhist and Scientific Approaches to Mental
Health and Healing,” Department and Centre for
the Study of Religion and the Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health, University of Toronto, April 30, 2005
“Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of the Mind
and Nature,” presented at the Institute of Physics.
Sponsored by the Department of Theology, Pontifical Catholic
University of São Paulo, Brazil,
June 4, 2005
“The Role of Attentional Balance in Mental Health,” Neuropsychiatric
Institute at the UCLA School of Medicine, January 29,
2004
“A Buddhist Model of Mental Health,” Department
of Psychology and the Center for Cognitive Science, University
and Polytechnic of Torino, Italy June 9, 2004
“First-, Second-, and Third-Person Perspectives
in the Study of the Mind: Where Buddhism and Science
Meet,” Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna,
La Normale University, Pisa, June 10, 2004
“Meta-cognition in Real Time and As Short-term
Memory” and “Objectivity and Cognitive Invariance:
A Buddhist View,” presented at the conference
on “Science et subjectivité,” CREA CNRS/École
Polytechnique, Paris, June 16, 2004
“Three Dimensions of Consciousness: A Buddhist
Phenomenology of the Mind,” presented at the conference
on “From Autopoiesis
to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela,” Amphithéâtre
Richelieu, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Paris, June 19, 2004
“Outer, Inner, and Nondual Space,” presented
at the conference on “Space in Mind: at the Interface
of Inner and Outer Space,” held at King
Alfred's College, Winchester, April 11-13, 2003
“Vacuum States of Consciousness: A Tibetan Buddhist
View,” presented at the 5th Biennial International
Symposium of Science, Technics and Aesthetics: “Space, Time
and Beyond,” Lucerne, Switzerland, January 18 -
19, 2003
“A Buddhist Ideal of Mental Health: Balancing
Attention, Emotions and Cognition,” presented at
the 2nd International Conference on Traditional Tibetan
medicine, Washington D.C., November 5-8, 2003
“The Impact of Buddhism on Western Science and
Philosophy,” presented at the congress on “Buddhism
in Belgium, Buddhism in the West,” University of Louvain,
Belgium, November 15, 2003 (http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/icrs)
“A Science of Consciousness: Buddhism (1) the
Modern West (2),” presented at the conference on “Wisdom,
Compassion, and Consciousness: Buddhist Practice and
Cognitive Science.” Sponsored
by the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for
Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California,
May 10, 2002
“Why the West Has No Science of Consciousness:
A Buddhist View,” presented at the conference on “Indic
Contributions to a Global Renaissance,” Columbia
University Institute of Buddhist Studies, July 26-29,
2002
“Cosmology in Science, a Buddhist Reflection,” presented
at the conference on “Religion and Its New Challenges,” Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley, California, April 6
- 7, 2001
“Vacuum States of Consciousness: A Tibetan Buddhist
View,” presented at the 5th conference on “Nothing
in Common: Scientific and Contemplative Views on Nothing,” University
of California, Santa Barbara, May 11-12, 2001“The
Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion,” presented
as part of the lecture series on “Science, Religion,
and the Human Experience,” University
of California, Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the John Templeton
Foundation, June 1, 2001 (Viewable at http://www.srhe.ucsb.edu)
“The Refinement and Epistemic Uses of Mental Perception
in Tibetan Buddhism,” a plenary lecture presented
at the conference “Toward
a Science of Consciousness: Tucson 2000, sponsored by
the Center for Consciousness Studies, the University
of Arizona, April 10, 2000
“First-, Second-, and Third-person Methods for
Studying Consciousness,”
Department of East Asian Studies, University of California
at Santa Cruz, February 14, 2000
“The Retinal Blind Spot in the Scientific Vision
of Our Origins,” presented in the Veritas Forum
Lecture Series entitled “Our Journey: Origins and
Destinations,” University of California, Santa
Barbara, May 7, 2000
“Vital Energies and Healing: Ancient and Modern
Perspectives,” presented at the 3rd Annual University
of California, Santa Barbara Conference on Global Medicine,
entitled “The Influence of
Mind on Healing and Dying,” May 20, 2000
“A Reassessment of the Status of Buddhism as a
Non-theistic Religion,” Center for South Asian
Studies, University of Virginia, October 25, 2000
“The Humoral Theory and Models of Optimal Physical
and Mental Health in Traditional Tibetan Medicine,” University
of Virginia School of Medicine, October 25, 2000
“The Encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and Modern
Science,” presented at the symposium on “Representing
Tibet,” University of Colorado,
Boulder. Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, Center
for Asian Studies, and the School of Law, January 28-30, 2000
“Is Buddhism Really Non-theistic?” Presented
at the National Conference of the American Academy of
Religion, Boston, Mass., November 1999
“Monastic Education in Traditional Tibet,” presented
at the conference on “Life in Traditional Tibet,” University
of California, Santa Barbara, January 22-24, 1999
“The Buddhist Pursuit of Spiritual Awakening and
the Scientific Pursuit of Objective Knowledge,” presented
at the conference on “Globalizing
Philosophy: Comparing Eastern and Western Approaches
to the Central Metaphysical Issues of Philosophy and
Science,” Department of Religion, Columbia University,
April 16-17, 1999
“Training the attention and exploring consciousness
in Tibetan Buddhism” presented at the conference
on “Toward a Science of Consciousness,” sponsored
by the University of Arizona, April 27, 1998
“A Madhyamaka Critique of the Foundations of Quantum
Mechanics,” presented at the conference on “The
Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics.” Sponsored
by the Philosophy Department, Rutgers University, April
17, 1998
“A Madhyamaka View of the Foundations of Modern
Physics,” presented at the conference on “Physics
and Tibetan Buddhism: Dialogues between Physicists and
Buddhist Scholars” at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, January 30-31,
1998
Discussant and co-interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama
at the International Symposium on Epistemological Questions
in Quantum Physics and Eastern Contemplative Sciences.
Sponsored by the Institut für
Experimentalphysik, University of Innsbruck, June 15-
22, 1998
“Buddhism and Modern Science,” a guest lecture
in the class “The Spiritual Experience in
the Modern World” at University of California,
Los Angeles, Extension, March 3, 1998
“Tibetan Medicine in the Context of Tibetan Buddhism,” presented
at the First
International Congress on Tibetan Medicine, sponsored by George Washington
University Medical Center, in Washington DC, November 9, 1998
“Buddhist Mind Control,” Psychology Department,
Stanford University, January 1997
“Psychological Maturation and Spiritual Awakening
in Tibetan Buddhism,” presented at the National
Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco,
California, November 1997
“Attentional training, introspection, and the
investigation of consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism,” presented
at Center for the Study of Language and Information,
Stanford University, March 1996
“The Dialectic between
Contemplative Knowledge and Religious Belief in Tibetan
Buddhism,” presented
at the National Conference of the American Academy of
Religion, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1996
“The Science of Logic in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist
Education” at the Third University of California,
Santa Barbara Conference on Tibetan Buddhism, Santa Barbara,
California, November 1996
“Logic and Debate in Tibetan Buddhist Culture,” presented
at the Model of Education Conference at the John
E. Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, July 1996
“The Contemplative Use of Introspection in Indo-Tibetan
Buddhism,” presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion
at the University of Redlands, California, March 1995
“The Tibetan Cultivation of Shamatha (Meditative
Quiescence) and the Nature of Consciousness,” presented
at the 2nd UCSB Conference on Tibetan Buddhism: “The
Nature of Mind in Tibetan Buddhism” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara, California, May 1995
“The Place of Consciousness in Religion and Science,” presented
at the conference “Chaos, Calculus, and Comparative
World Views” at Evergreen State College, Olympia,
Washington; sponsored by the National Science Foundation,
August 1995
“The Meditative Cultivation of Attentional Stability
and Clarity,” Psychiatry Department, University
of California at Irvine, March 1992
“Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga,” Evergreen
College, Olympia, Washington, April 1992
“What is Meditation?” Present at Mind/Body
Node of the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago Headquarters,
December 1992
“Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Relative and
Ultimate Truths” and “Buddhism in the World
of Science,” Religion Department, Willamette University,
Salem, September 1991
“From Cognitive Science to a Science of Consciousness,” presented
at the conference on “Renewal of Thinking in Science
and Technology” at Mt. Holyoke
College, Massachusetts, sponsored by Laurence Rockefeller, June 1991
“Methods and Applications of Enhancing Focused
Attentional Duration” Psychiatry Department, Stanford
University School of Medicine, June 1991
“Contemplative Ways of Knowing in Tibetan Buddhism” and “Tibetan
Culture in the Modern World,” Religious Studies
Department, Reed College, Portland, April, 1991
“Emptiness, Conceptual Schemas and the Practice
of Vajray?na,” Religious Studies Department, University
of California at Santa Barbara, December 1991
“A Tibetan Buddhist View of Modern Science,” Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, October
1986
ORGANIZING AND CHAIRING ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
Organizer for “The International Conference on ‘Buddhism
and Science’ in Celebration of His Majesty King
Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Eightieth Birthday,” co-sponsored
by the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University and the Santa
Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies at The Main Auditorium, Faculty
of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakhorn Pathom,
Thailand, August 3-5, 2007
Organizer for the conference “Death and Dying:
Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives,” co-sponsored
by Casa Tibet Mexico and the Santa Barbara Institute
for Consciousness
Studies at La Salle Medical University, Mexico City, August 19, 2007
Co-organizer of the conference “Buddhism & Science,” sponsored
by the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University,
Bangkok, Thailand, co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara
Institute for Consciousness Studies, August 3 – 5,
2007
Organizer of the conference on “Craving, Suffering,
and Choice: Spiritual and Scientific Explorations of
Human Experience” with H. H. the
Dalai Lama, sponsored by the Stanford University School
of Medicine, November 5, 2005
“Scientific and Buddhist Views of Energy” and “A
Buddhist View of Optimal Mental Health,” Casa Tibet
México, Mexico City, January 31 and
February 1, 2005
Co-chaired the panel, with Princeton neuroscientist
Jonathan Cohen, on “Attention and Cognitive Control” at
the conference Mind & Life
XI: Investigating the Mind: Exchanges Between Buddhism
and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works,
co-sponsored by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research
at MIT, Sept. 13-14, 2003
Organizer of “Nothing in Common: Scientific and
Contemplative Views on Nothing,” sponsored by the
Infinity Foundation and the Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara, May 11-12, 2001
Organizer of “Life in Traditional Tibet” conference,
Department of Religious Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara, January 22-23, 1999Organizer of “Religion and Science” lecture
series, Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter & Spring,
1999
Organizer of “Physics and Tibetan Buddhism” conference,
Department of Religious Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara, January 1998
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
Public Lectures
“The Conscious Universe: Where Buddhism and Physics
Converge,” sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute
for Consciousness Studies, Santa Barbara, California,
January 16, 2008 (Available also at http://www.sbinstitute.com/LecturesMP3.html)
“A Buddhist View of Death and Dying,” presented
at the conference on “Death and Dying: Buddhist
and Scientific Perspectives,” co-sponsored by Casa
Tibet Mexico and the Santa Barbara Institute for
Consciousness Studies at La Salle Medical University,
Mexico City, August 19, 2007
“Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science,” sponsored
by the Jefferson Tibetan Society of Charlottesville,
December 8, 2007 (Available at http://www.archive.org/details/B_Alan_Wallace_Dependent_Origination)
“The Shamatha Project: Unlocking the Power of
the focused Mind,” sponsored by the Santa Barbara
Institute for Consciousness Studies, Santa Barbara, California,
December 19, 2007 (Available at) http://www.sbinstitute.com/ShamathaTalk.html)
“Dependent
Origination in Buddhism and Science, sponsored by the
Jefferson Tibetan
Society, Charlottesville, VA,
December 8, 2006 (Available at
http://www.archive.org/details/B_Alan_Wallace_Dependent_Origination)
“Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences” at
Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California, Aug.
8, 2006. Viewable at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=983112177262602885&q=alan+Wallace
Meditation seminar, “The Four Immeasurables,” sponsored
by the Jefferson Tibetan
Society, Charlottesville, VA,
December 9 – 10, 2006 (Available at
http://www.archive.org/details/B_Alan_Wallace_Four_Immeasurables_Retreat)
Lecturing on Buddhism and physics in the “Science
for Monk” program, Dehra Dun, India, December
24 – January 2, 2005
Discussant at “The Way of Peace” conference
with H.H. the Dalai Lama and Fr. Lawrence Freeman on
scripture and imagery in Buddhism and Christianity, Prato,
Italy, May 13-16, 1999
Public Lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, Santa Barbara,
California, 1997-present
Public Lecturer on Buddhism in Switzerland, Germany,
England, France, and Italy, 1976-1979
Interpreting Activities
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the Mind and
Life conference “Neuroplasticity,” Dharamsala,
India, October 18 - October 22, 2004
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at t the Mind and
Life conference “The Nature of Matter, the Nature
of Life,” Dharamsala, India, September 30 -
October 4, 2002
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the Mind and
Life conference “Transformations of Mind, Brain
and Emotion: Neurobiological and Bio-Behavioral Research
on Meditation” at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, May 21-22, 2001
Interpreter and consultant for an NBC Dateline one-hour
program on Tibetan medical
treatment for metastatic breast cancer that aired Jan. 1, 2001
Interpreter and co-organizer of the conference on “Destructive
Emotions” with H. H. the Dalai Lama and Western
cognitive scientists and philosophers
in Dharamsala, March 20-24, 2000
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama for his lecture “The
Relevance of Tibetan Medicine Today” presented
at the First International Congress on Tibetan Medicine,
sponsored by George Washington University Medical Center,
in Washington DC, November 7, 1998
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind
and Life VI: Physics and Buddhism,” Dharamsala,
India, Nov. 1997
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at conference on “Buddhism
and Academia,” Stanford University, 1994
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind
and Life IV: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying,” Dharamsala,
India, 1992
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind
and Life III: Healing Emotions,” Dharamsala, India,
1990
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind
and Life II: Transformations of Consciousness,” Newport
Beach, California, 1989
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at “Mind
and Life I: Dialogues Between Buddhism and the Cognitive
Sciences,” Dharamsala, India, 1987
Interpreter for
H. H. the Dalai Lama, “Inner Sciences
Conference,” Amherst College, 1984
Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama, European tour,
1979
Interpreter for Tibetan Buddhist scholars and contemplatives
throughout Europe and North America, 1975 – present
Public Interviews
”Unwavering Samadhi: Meditative Achievement and
Its Impact in the World” interviewed for
Podcast “Buddhist Geeks, March 17, 2008: http://www.fallingfruit.tv/episodes/unwavering-samadhi-meditative-achievement- and-its-impact-world
“A Mindful Balance: Interview with B. Alan Wallace.” In Tricycle:
The Buddhist Review, Spring, 2008: 60-63,
109-111
Interviewed for “The Tibet Connection: The English-Language
Radio News
Magazine About Tibet,” July 27, 2007:
http://www.thetibetconnection.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/tc0707-3.mp3
“Buddhismus im Labortest.” Interview published
in “Die Zeit,”
March 15, 2007, Nr. 12: http://www.zeit.de/2007/12/Meditation-Interview
pdf: http://hermes.zeit.de/pdf/archiv/2007/12/Meditation-Interview.pdf
“On Contemplative Science,” interviewed
for Podcast “Buddhist Geeks:”
http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2007/01/29/buddhist-geeks-4-get-a-phd-in-
10 contemplative-science/
“On Achieving Shamatha,” interviewed for
Podcast “Buddhist Geeks:
http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2007/01/15/buddhist-geeks-2-alan-wallace-on-achieving-shamatha/
Interviewed for “The Skeptics Corner:” http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=73
“Happiness—A Science of the Mind.” Interviewed
by Paula Gordon and Bill Russell, “The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with People
at the Leading Edge,” November 26, 2006: http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/awallace/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-gordon/. See also “Be
Happy, Start a Revolution,” by Paula Gordon. In The
Huffington Post, Nov. 29, 2006:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-gordon/be-happy-start-a-revolut_b_35127.html
“Buddha on the Brain,” interviewed by Steve
Paulson, November 27, 2006:
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/11/27/wallace/. See also: http://souljerky.com/
Interviewed with MIT neuroscientist Christopher Moore
on “The Leonard Lopate Show,”New York Public
Radio, April 28, 2006: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/04/28
“Mindfulness: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation?
A Conversation with Jan Chozen Bays, Joseph Goldstein,
Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Alan Wallace.” For Inquiring
Mind: A Semiannual Journal of the Vipassana Community,
Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 2006: 4-7, 28-29
Interviewed by Rob M. Hogendoorn at Columbia University,
February 26, 2006:
http://mindandreality.org/interviews.html#BAlanWallace
“Interview with Alan Wallace” by Sarah Lionheart.
In Yoga & Health, February 2005: 9- 10:
http://www.lionhearts.boltblue.com/Interview_with_Alan_Wallace
_May_2004_Glasgow. Pdf
“Altruism: What Science Can Learn from Buddhism.” For Science & Theology
News, December 2004: 11
“Scientific Mind, Buddhist Mind.” For Inquiring
Mind: A Semiannual Journal of the Vipassana Community, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 2004: 22-25
“Tibetan Buddhism in the West: Is It Working?” For Tricycle:
The Buddhist Review, Summer 2001: 54-63
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Courses
“The Culture and Religions of Tibet,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara
“The Life and Thought of the XIV Dalai Lama,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara
“The Pursuit of Individual Liberation in Tibetan
Buddhism,” Department of Religious Studies, University
of California, Santa Barbara
“The Bodhisattva Ideal in Tibetan Buddhism,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara
“Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying in Tibetan Buddhism,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara
“Religion and Healing in Global Perspective (co-taught
with Professor Catherine Albanese), Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Contemplative Life (co-taught with Professor
Richard Hecht),” Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Religion, Science, and the Problem of Consciousness,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara
“First-Year Tibetan Language,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara
“Intermediate Spoken and Written Tibetan,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara
“Advanced Tibetan,” Department of Religious
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Seminars
“Seminar on Theories and Methods in the Study
of Tibetan Buddhism,” Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Seminar on Religion and Science,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara
“Seminar on Buddhist Epistemology,” Department
of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Asian Languages
Classical Tibetan: complete fluency
Spoken Tibetan: complete fluency
Sanskrit: 2 academic years
European Languages
German: 7 years
French: 1 year
PART ONE B. ALAN WALLACE CURRICULUM
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