Alan Wallace is a prominent Buddhist scholar, translator, and meditation teacher. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and of the Centers for Contemplative Research in Colorado and Italy. Alan has participated in dialogues and research between Buddhists and scientists and is an outspoken critic of the detrimental limitations placed on science by the unquestioned beliefs of materialism. Discontinuing his university studies in 1971, he moved to Dharamsala, India to study Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, and language. He was ordained by H.H. the Dalai Lama two years later and, over fourteen years as a monk, he studied with and translated for many of the generation’s greatest lamas. He received his PhD at Stanford, researching the interface between Buddhism and Western science and philosophy, with a focus on the contemplative cultivation of attention, mindfulness, and introspection. He has written and translated more than 40 books.
