Paths to Perfection: Contemplative Practices in Christianity and Buddhism
with B. Alan Wallace
Date & Time: Thursday 1 April, 7.00-8.30pm
Venue: Vajrayana Institute, 9 Victoria Square, Ashfield
Free Public Talk; No booking necessary, all are welcome.
For centuries, mystical union with God - understood as perfect love and omniscient wisdom - was the ideal for Christian contemplatives, while Buddhist contemplatives pursued ideals of personal liberation and perfect enlightenment.The remarkable parallels between these wisdom traditions, as well as the differences, will be explored in this insightful lecture.
About the speaker, B. Alan Wallace
A prolific writer and translator of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, Dr. Wallace 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. Wallace is the President of Santa Barbara Consciousness Institute in the US. His most recent books include Genuine Happiness: Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment, The Attention Revolution – Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind and Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity .
