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 = 2014 Translation & Transmission Conference Program)
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.