Villarreal, C.

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Claire
LastName / namelast	Villarreal
SortName	Villarreal, Claire
bio	Rice University PhD under Anne Klein in 2015. Thesis: "To Know a Buddha: A Tibetan Contemplative History and Its Implications for Religious Studies". This dissertation examines the introduction, critique, and re-framing of other-emptiness (gzhan-stong) by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361), Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa (1357–1419), and Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899) respectively. Each author's writings on emptiness were deeply informed by his own contemplative and visionary experiences. Such peak religious moments—along with historical, social, and textual context—must be considered seriously to provide the richest possible history of other-emptiness. From Academia.edu: I work to adapt traditional Buddhist teachings for the demands of modern life. (Want a free mini-course with some of my guided meditations and other resources for meditation? Here you go: https://clairevillarreal.teachable.com/p/essential-tools-for-meditation.) I've made trips to Thailand, India, and Nepal totaling over two years to study and meditate in traditional settings in those countries, with pilgrimage to Tibet. I began meditating daily in 1997 in the Theravada and Vajrayāna traditions, and my teachers include Anne Klein, PhD, Harvey Aronson, PhD, Lama Tenzin Samphel, and Kamalo Bhikkhu. I've spent two and a half months in various degrees of retreat in the Thai forest tradition, four months in group retreats in India and Nepal, and cumulatively over a year of solitary retreat since 2007. A former Programs Director for Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism and former board member for Compassionate Houston, I earned my doctorate in Religious Studies from Rice University with a dissertation and publications exploring contemplative ways of knowing and how they speak to the contemporary academic study of mysticism. These days I'm a member of the GenX dharma teachers community, and I recently received a grant from the Hemera Foundation to write and podcast about what Tibetan teachings on reincarnation can teach us about living well. (Source)
associatedwebsite	https://clairevillarreal.teachable.com
phduniversity	Rice University
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The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.