Rangjung Yeshe Institute - NP
About Renée Ford
Renée Ford earned her PhD from Rice University, specializing in Tibetan Buddhism with a focus on sūtric and tantric meditation practices of the rNying ma tradition.
Her research interests also include performative and ritual theory, embodiment, cognitive sciences of religion, and Tibetan Buddhist epistemology.
Renée holds a M.A. in Buddhist studies with Sanskrit and Tibetan Language from Nāropa University. Before her time at Rice University, she interned at Tsadra Foundation and studied Tibetan language with Dr. Jules Levinson.
Her doctoral thesis examines how specific rNying ma tantric meditation practices involve embodied epistemology. Renée currently teaches Asian religions at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and serves as a Catalogue Researcher and Translation Coordinator for the Khyentse Vision Project.