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CURRICULUM VITAE B. Alan Wallace
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, 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 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 Consultant and meditation trainer for the Mindful Attention
Training (MAT) for Epilepsy, a research in the effectiveness of attentional
training for reducing 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 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 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 “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 “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 “Training the attention and exploring consciousness in Tibetan
Buddhism.” “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: “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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