B. Alan Wallace spent fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama. He then earned his undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and his doctorate in religious studies from Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books are Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness; Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity; and Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (editor). He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://www.sbinstitute.com).

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1 - Principles of Contemplative Science
2 - Where Science and Religion Collide
3 - The Study of Consciousness, East and West
4 - Spiritual Awakening and Objective Knowledge
5 - Buddhist Nontheism, Polytheism, and Monotheism
6 - Worlds of Intersubjectivity
7 - Samatha: The Contemplative Refinement of Attention
8 - Beyond Idolatry: The Renaissance of a Spirit of Empiricism
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