Anne C. Klein is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University. She is also the co-founder of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple in Houston, Texas. She has studied Buddhist philosophy and practice with Asian scholars and meditation masters since 1971- including three years of fieldwork in India, Nepal, and Tibet.

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.

For more information about Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple in Houston, visit http://www.dawnmountain.org.

BOOKS

• Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation
• Knowing, Naming, and Negation
• Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission
• Knowledge and Liberation
• Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
• Tantric Practice in Nying-ma (co-editor)
• Walking Through Walls (co-editor)