Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies · 2011
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B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace
1950 CE · Modern · Pasadena, California
b. 1950 (living)
B. Alan Wallace (b. 1950) is an American teacher, translator, and writer who works at the intersection of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and the scientific study of the mind. Trained for years as a Tibetan Buddhist monk and a frequent interpreter for the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, he later took an academic path and in 2003 founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He is known for books on attention training (śamatha) and 'contemplative science,' and for promoting dialogue between Buddhism and the sciences. He continues to teach.
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DOCUMENTED: born in 1950; raised and educated in the U.S., Scotland, and Switzerland.
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Pasadena, California, USA, is associated with B. Alan Wallace, the American scholar, translator and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and contemplative science, who has worked in the region as part of his study and teaching of meditation.
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Works(2)
The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies · 2006