On Friday, October 29, 2021, Gabriela Lanauze Torres, defended her thesis titled "The Project of an Aesthetics of Thought" and "The Plenitude of the Void: The Thoughts of Dōgen Zenji", a translation from Spanish into English of "El proyecto de una estética del pensamiento” y “La plenitud del vacío. El pensamiento de Dōgen Zenji” by Francisco José Ramos.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Raúl de Pablos Escalante, Ph. D., Antoine Philippe, Ph. D., and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente.