Klein, A.
- Rigzin Dolma
Birth: | 1947 |
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Website: | http://reli.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=260; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_C._Klein; http://www.dawnmountain.org/; |
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Primary Language: | English |
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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
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)
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Which Wheel Turning | |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
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Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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