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CURRICULUM VITAE 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 “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. “Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences,” presented
at Zentrum für “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 “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 “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 “Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness,” presented
at 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,” “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 “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, 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, 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 “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 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 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 “Buddhismus im Labortest.” Interview published in “Die
Zeit,” “On Contemplative Science,” interviewed for Podcast “Buddhist
Geeks:” “On Achieving Shamatha,” interviewed for Podcast “Buddhist
Geeks: 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/ “Buddha on the Brain,” interviewed by Steve Paulson, November
27, 2006: 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: “Interview with Alan Wallace” by Sarah Lionheart. In Yoga & Health,
February 2005: 9- 10: http://www.lionhearts.boltblue.com/Interview_with_Alan_Wallace “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 European Languages PART ONE B. ALAN WALLACE CURRICULUM VITAE
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