Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar and contemplative, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with a Western scientific study of the mind. Alan is a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation worldwide since 1976. He devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk and was ordained by the Dalai Lama. He then went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford University.