B. ALAN WALLACE, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHY Trained for ten years in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland, Alan Wallace has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976; and he has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford University.

He has edited, translated, authored, or contributed to more than thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, as well as the interface between religion and science. He teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is launching one program in Tibetan Buddhist studies and another in science and religion. His published works include The Bridge of Quiescence: Experiencing Buddhist Meditation), Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind, and Tibetan Buddhism From the Ground Up.

Alan Wallace is the president of the Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness (http://sbinstitute.com).

For more information about Alan Wallace, visit his website at www.alanwallace.org.

Special message from B. Alan Wallace regarding H.H. the Dalai Lama: "Finding the Middle Way"

TEACHINGS

• "Can Buddhism survive modernity? How does science play a role?" Listen to audio interview with B. Alan Wallace at
  www.thetibetconnection.org/
• "Emptiness on My Mind"

www.mandalamagazine.org/2001/emptinessonmymind.htm
• "Tibetan Buddhism in the West: Is it Working?"
  An interview with B. Alan Wallace, conducted by Brian Hodel
  www.tricycle.com/currentissue/balanwallace.html
• "The Scientific Frontier of the Inner Spirit"
  from the Snow Lion newsletter
• A Message about Buddhism and War


• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Reflections on the American 2004 Elections

GENERAL SCHEDULE

2007

June 15-20
CORTES ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Lucid Dreaming & Dream Yoga
Venue: Hollyhock Retreat Center, Manson's Landing
Tel: (800) 933-6339 or (250) 935-6576
More info: Hollyhock Retreat Center or
www.sbinstitute.com

August 11-12
POMONA, CALIFORNIA
Balancing the Heart and Mind
A weekend retreat with B. Alan Wallace
Venue: Bronco Student Center, Cal Poly Pomona
Tel: (800) 933-6339 or (250) 935-6576
More info: Ahimsa Center--Nonviolence in Thought and Action

September 1-December 15
RED FEATHER LAKES, CO
With Dr. Clifford Saron, 100-day Project retreat & scientific study: Shamatha (meditative quiescence, or calm abiding), four immeasurables (loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity)
Venue:
Shambhala Mountain Center
info@shambhalamountain.org
www.shambhalamountain.org/shamatha

For more information on these or any other Alan Wallace events, contact:
Clear Light Sangha
PO Box 91415
Santa Barbara CA 93190
Tel: 805-643-1237
t.tarleton@cox.net

PUBLICATIONS

• The Attention Revolution
• Balancing the Mind
• Boundless Heart
• Buddhism and Science (ed.)
• Buddhism with an Attitude
• Calming the Mind (trans.)
• Choosing Reality
• Consciousness at the Crossroads (co-ed. & co-trans.)
• Contemplative Science
• Dependent Arising and Emptiness
• The Four Immeasurables
• Genuine Happiness (co-auth.)
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life (co-auth.)
• Healing from the Source (trans. & ed.)
• Meditation, Transformation & Dream Yoga (trans.)
• Naked Awareness (trans. & co-ed.)
• Natural Liberation (trans.)
• A Passage from Solitude (reprinted as The Seven-Point Mind Training)
• Realizing Emptiness (trans.)
• The Seven-Point Mind Training
• A Spacious Path to Freedom (trans.)
• The Taboo of Subjectivity
• Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up
• Transcendent Wisdom (ed. & annotated)
• Transcending Time (trans.)