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Meeting The Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, And The Art Of The Self
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Path To The Middle: Oral Madhyamika Philosophy In Tibet – The Spoken Scholarship Of Kensur Yeshey Tupden
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Unbounded Wholeness: Bon Dzogchen And The Logic Of Non-Conceptual (with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal)
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Knowledge And Liberation : Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology In Support Of Transformative Religious Experience
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Knowing, Naming, And Negation: A Sourcebook On Tibetan Sautrantika
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Tibetan
scholar and writer.
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After graduating from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) cum laude with Highest Honors in English, she earned her M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin and her PhD. In Religious/Tibetan Studies from the University of Virginia. Following this she was awarded a Teaching and Research post-doc at Harvard Divinity School as a Research Associate in Women's Studies and the History of Religion. She is the Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston Texas. Her ongoing research includes inquiry into Buddhist and feminist perspectives, and the study and translation of Tibetan oral scholarship, especially Geluk discussions of Madhyamika and Nyingma elaborations of Great Completeness (rDzogs-chen) texts.
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She has been a practicing Buddhist and student of Buddhist thought since 1971, when she studied with Kensur Ngawang Lekden, then 70 years old, the last Abbot of the Tantric College of Lower Lhasa. She has been a student of Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche since 1973 and received teaching authorization from him in 1995. She conceived and led a women's pilgrimage to Tibet in 1996, at which time she met Adzom Rinpoche at Samye Chimphug where she received her dharma name – Dawn Mountain. The meeting was so compelling that Dawn Mountain invited Adzom Rinpoche to visit the West for the first time in 1999, and Anne has been the central coordinator of his work in the US since that time, accompanying him on his travels and translating for him, as well as teaching from his tradition.
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She has also studied extensively with a number of prominent Geluk and Dzogchen teachers in India, Nepal and the U.S including (in chronological order) Geshe Wangyal, Lati Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten, Denma Locho Rinpoche, Loling Kensur Yeshey Thupten, Lama Gompo Tsayden, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, Tulkku Thondup, Lobon Tenzin Namdak, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
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She is also the co-founder and resident teacher of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple in Houston, Texas. In her dharma teaching she emphasizes the need for embodiment in meditation practice and for an awareness that encompasses cultural as well as personal insights. She has since 1998 been developing and leading Buddhism in the Body workshops with Phyllis Pay. These have been offered in Berkeley, Houston, Esalen Institute, and Arizona.
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Anne is married to Harvey Aronson and they have been traveling the path together since 1970.
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