1. Gyatrul Rinpoche (1925 - 2023) was a senior lama of the Palyul lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
2. B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism, language, and culture in 1970 at the University of Göttingen and then continued his studies over the next fourteen years in India, Switzerland, and the United States. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He then taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://sbinstitute.com). He is also Chairman of the Thanypura Mind Centre (http://piamc.com) in Thailand, where he leads meditation retreats. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and Buddhism, including Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity, and Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness.
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Transforming felicity and adversity into the spiritual path / by Jigme Tenpe Nyima Releasing oneself from essential delusion / by Lochen Dharma Shri The illumination of primordial wisdom / by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Commentaries by Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche
