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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Pasadena, California
What they did here
Born in 1950; raised and educated in the U.S., Scotland, and Switzerland.
About Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, about 16 km northeast of downtown Los Angeles; it was incorporated in 1886 and has staged the Tournament of Roses parade since 1890. It is a major centre of science. The California Institute of Technology, founded in 1891 as Throop University, set up a biology division under Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1928, and its early growth was shaped by George Ellery Hale, founder of the nearby Mount Wilson Observatory. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the city's largest employer. Pasadena is also the birthplace of B. Alan Wallace, the American scholar and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with B. Alan Wallace’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works(2)
The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies · 2006