Klein, A.

Klein, A. on the DRL

Professors • Translators • Western Buddhist Teachers • Authors of English Works

Anne Carolyn Klein

Alternate names

• Rigzin Dolma

Dates

Birth:	1947

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	http://reli.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=260; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_C._Klein; http://www.dawnmountain.org/;

About

Primary Language:	English
Translates from:	Tibetan
Translates to:	English

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Rice University

Secondary Affiliation

Dawn Mountain Sangha; Ligmincha Institute

Religious Affiliation

Geluk; Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism; Dawn Mountain Sangha; Ligmincha Institute

Teachers

Kensur Ngawang Lekden · Geshe Wangyal · Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche · Lama Gonpo Tseten

PhD University

University of Virginia

Education

• 1981 - Ph.D., University of Virginia
  

Biographical Information

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)

Links

Wiki Pages

• Klein, A. on the DRL
• Klein, A. on the LIB
• Klein, A. on the BNW

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

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 self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.