# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-alan-wallace
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:28.977Z

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name: "B. Alan Wallace"
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description: "Bruce Alan Wallace is an American Buddhologist of Tibetan Buddhism. He has authored many texts in the field of contemplative science, most notably The Attention Revolution on the cultivation of Samatha, and Dreaming Yourself Awake on the lucid dreaming practice of dream yoga. Wallace's works include an English translation of the foremost Tibetan Buddhism text, the Bardo Thodol, by Padmasambhava. He has also been active in the dialogue between established Western science and Tibetan Buddhist psychology, including staunch critiques of materialistic philosophies of mind, while emphasizing the incorporation of introspection as a technique of academic inquiry. He is founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. Alan Wallace is widely regarded as a preeminent meditation teacher and Buddhism scholar."
tagline: "American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner"
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birthDate: "1950-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump