Klein, Anne Carolyn

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KLEIN, Anne Carolyn

KLEIN, Anne Carolyn. American. Genres: Theology/Religion. Career: Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, instructor in classics, philosophy, and religion, 1981; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, lecturer in religious studies, 1981-82; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, research associate in women's studies and the history of religion at Harvard Divinity School, 1982-83, visiting scholar at Center for the Study of World Religions, 1983-84; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, lecturer, 1984-86, Jing Lyman Lecturer, 1986, acting assistant professor of religious studies, 1986-89; Rice University, Houston, TX, assistant professor, 1989-91, associate professor, 1989-95, professor of religious studies and head of department, 1995-. Fairfield University, annual visiting lecturer, 1991; Namgyal Monastery, adjunct faculty at Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1992-; University of Hawaii, Numata Distinguished Professor Lecturer, 1995. Conducted field studies in Tibet, India, Nepal, and China. Participates in retreats and public lectures. Publications: (assist. ed.) Tenzin Gyatso, The Buddhism of Tibet and the Key to the Middle Way (trans. by J. Hopkins, L. Rinbochay, and others), 1975; (assist. ed.) Nagarjuna, The Precious Garland and the Song of the Four Mindfulnesses (trans. by Hopkins and Rinbochay), 1975; (assist. ed.) Khensur Ngawang Lekden and Tsong-ka-ba, Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism (trans. by Hopkins), 1980; (ed. with Hopkins) Khetsun Sangpo, Tantric Practice in Nyingma (trans. by Hopkins), 1982; (ed.) Hopkins, The Tantric Distinction, 1984; Knowledge and Liberation: Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology in Support of Transformative Religious Experience, 1986; Knowing, Naming, and Negation: A Sourcebook on Tibetan Sautrantika, 1991; (ed. with L. Zahler) Geshe Gedun Lodro, Walking through Walls (trans. by Hopkins), 1992; Path to the Middle: Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet, the Spoken Scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden, 1994; Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self, 1995. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals. Address: Department of Religious Studies, Rice University, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251, U.S.A.