Klein, A.

PersonType	Category:Professors Category:Translators Category:Western Buddhist Teachers Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Anne
LastName / namelast	Klein
namemiddle	Carolyn
namealt	Rigzin Dolma
bio	Anne Carolyn Klein (Rigzin Drolma), Professor and Former Chair of Religious Studies, Rice University, and Founding Director of Dawn Mountain. (www.dawnmountain.org). Her six books include Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission; Meeting the Great Bliss Queen, Knowledge & Liberation, and Paths to the Middle as well as Unbounded Wholeness with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. She has also been a consulting scholar in several Mind and Life programs. Her central thematic interest is the interaction between head and heart as illustrated across a spectrum of Buddhist descriptions of the many varieties of human consciousness. (Source Accessed July 24, 2020)
YearBirth	1947
associatedwebsite	http://reli.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=260; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_C._Klein; http://www.dawnmountain.org/;
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Rice University
affiliationsecondary	Dawn Mountain Sangha; Ligmincha Institute
religiousaffiliation	Geluk; Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism; Dawn Mountain Sangha; Ligmincha Institute
StudentOf	Kensur Ngawang Lekden  ·  Geshe Wangyal  ·  Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche  ·  Lama Gonpo Tseten
phduniversity	University of Virginia
education	1981 - Ph.D., University of Virginia
IsInGyatsa	No
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The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.