Rita Gross
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In 1974 Gross was named the head of ''Women and Religion'', a newly created section of the American Academy of Religion. She earned her PhD in 1975 from the University of Chicago in History of Religions, with the dissertation "Exclusion and Participation: The Role of Women in Aboriginal Australian Religion." This was the first dissertation ever on women's studies in religion. In 1976 she published the article "Female God Language in a Jewish Context" (Davka Magazine 17), which Jewish scholar and feminist Judith Plaskow considers "probably the first article to deal theoretically with the issue of female God-language in a Jewish context". Gross was herself born Lutheran before converting to Judaism in her twenties.
In 1977 Gross took refuge with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, becoming a Tibetan Buddhist. In 2005 she was made a ''lopön'' (Tibetan (Wylie): ''slob dpon''; Sanskrit (IAST): ''ācārya'', "senior teacher") by Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, and taught at Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche's Lotus Garden Center, located in the United States.
Gross grew up on a dairy farm in the Rhinelander, Wisconsin area. Gross died, of a stroke, on November 11, 2015, at her home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Provided by Wikipedia
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