Klein, A.

Other information

Klein, A. on the DRL

Anne Carolyn Klein

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Alternate names

• Rigzin Dolma

Dates

Birth:	1947

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
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

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.