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.
phduniversity	Rice University
IsInGyatsa	No
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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.