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B. Alan Wallace (born 1950) is an American expert on Tibetan Buddhism. Wallace founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and has focused on the relationships between science and Eastern philosophy. A 2006 ''Salon'' article said that Wallace "may be the American Buddhist most committed to finding connections between Buddhism and science." His books outline contemporary findings among Eastern and Western scientific, philosophical, and contemplative modes of inquiry. == Life and career == Wallace received a Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation in 1995 was on ''The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.'' The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford notes that he "taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara."〔( Alumni of Stanford's Buddhist Studies Program )〕 Wallace founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies in 2003, with the objective of "furthering such interdisciplinary and cross-cultural investigation of the nature and potentials of consciousness and extending its benefits to the general public." 〔( Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies )〕 One of the institute's projects is the Shamatha Project, a longitudinal scientific study of the effects of intensive meditation training. This matured, after preliminary phases of this project, into the International Shamatha Project (ISP). Wallace worked with psychologist Paul Ekman and Eve Ekman on the Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) project. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home - Cultivating Emotional Balance )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「B. Alan Wallace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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