Balancing the Mind
A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention
$49.24
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2013
Summary
For centuries, Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed and rigorous techniques of meditation. B. Alan Wallace explains the methods and experiences of Tibetan practitioners and compares these with investigations of consciousness by Western scientists and philosophers. Balancing the Mind includes a translation of the classic discussion of methods for developing exceptionally high degrees of attentional stability and clarity by fifteenth-centu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781559392303 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1559392304 |
| Author: | B. Alan Wallace |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Snow Lion Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
“A spectacular cross-cultural presentation of techniques for achieving meditative states.“—Jeffrey Hopkins, author of Maps of the Profound
“The most important book on Buddhist meditation to appear in over a decade.“—Roger Jackson, Director of Asian Studies, Carleton College
“Alan Wallace is one of the great Western Buddhist thinkers of our day.“—Howard Cutler, coauthor with H.H. the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness “For experienced practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism who also enjoy intellectual analysis of their practice and tradition, Balancing the Mind will have great appeal.“—The Middle Way Buddhist quarterly
About The Author
B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace has authored, translated, edited, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, science, and culture. With fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, he earned a BA in physics and the philosophy of science and then a PhD in religious studies. After teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies to explore the integration of scientific approaches and contemplative methods.
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