{"id":714,"date":"2006-08-13T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2006\/08\/buddhism-toward-the-first-revolution-in-the-mind-sciences\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T20:32:00","slug":"buddhism-toward-the-first-revolution-in-the-mind-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2006\/08\/buddhism-toward-the-first-revolution-in-the-mind-sciences.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism: &#8220;Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>(from an email list I received this today.  I highly recommend it, and all else from B. Alan Wallace)<\/p>\n<p>B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., recently gave a lecture entitled \u201cToward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences\u201d at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.  Google has made a video recording of this lecture freely available on the web:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fixed decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=983112177262602885&amp;q;=alan+wallace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=983112177262602885&amp;q;=alan+wallace<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Mind and Life Affiliate B. Alan Wallace is president of The Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and 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 his M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than thirty books on <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Tibetan Buddhism<\/a>, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.  Dr. Wallace is a primary contributer to meditation research projects, including the Cultivating Emotional Balance project and the Shamatha project.<\/p>\n<p>His published works include Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind (Snow Lion, 1996), The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness (Oxford, 2000), Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (Columbia University Press 2003), Balancing the Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention (Snow Lion, 2005), and Genuine Happiness: Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2005)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fixed decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/alanwallace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/alanwallace.org<\/a><br><a class=\"fixed decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/sbinstitute.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/sbinstitute.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-115549787504768902?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from an email list I received this today. I highly recommend it, and all else from B. Alan Wallace) B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., recently gave a lecture entitled \u201cToward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences\u201d at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Google has made a video recording of this lecture freely available on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buddhism: &quot;Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(from an email list I received this today. I highly recommend it, and all else from B. Alan Wallace)B. 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