Last Updated on October 11, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
- Dr. B. Alan Wallace is an expert on Tibetan Buddhism
- Dialogues and research between Buddhists and scientists
- Is founder of the of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
- Wallace began his studies of the Tibetan language and Buddhism in 1970 at the University of Göttingen in Germany, continuing his studies in Dharamsala, India
- he was ordained as a Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama in 1975.
- Was teaching at the Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland from 1975 to 1979
- He was a participant and interpreter at the first Mind and Life Institute in 1987 and continued in this capacity through 2009.
- In 1987, Wallace obtained a B.A. in physics, philosophy of science and Sanskrit from Amherst College
- He received 1995 a Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University
- His doctoral dissertation was on The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.
- He taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
- Wallace founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies in 2003, designed to integrate scientific and contemplative exploration of consciousness