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Religion
  
Tibetan Buddhism

Based in
  
University of Michigan

Spouse
  
Tomoko Masuzawa

Role
  
Jr.

Name
  
Donald Lopez,


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Education
  
University of Virginia (1982)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Prisoners of Shangri‑L, Buddhism and Science, The Story of Buddhism, "The Tibetan Book of th, From Stone to Flesh: A Short Hist

Prof. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. - Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism


Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. (born 1952) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

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Life

Lopez was born in Washington, D.C. and is the son of U.S. Air Force pilot and Smithsonian Institution official Donald Lopez. He was educated at the University of Virginia, receiving a B.A. (Hons) in Religious Studies in 1974, an M.A. in Buddhist Studies in 1977, and his doctorate in Buddhist Studies in 1982. He is married to another prominent Religious Studies scholar, Tomoko Masuzawa.

Lopez is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has written and edited many books on various aspects of the religions of Asia. He specializes in late Indian Mahayana Buddhism and in Tibetan Buddhism and commands classical and colloquial Tibetan. In 2008 he gave a four talks on The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future as part of a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University. In 2012 he delivered the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures at Harvard, "The White Lama Ippolito".

He is a long-term associate of Yale professor of New Testament studies Dale Martin.

As author

  • From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha, The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life. Yale University Press. 25 September 2012. ISBN 978-0-300-15912-7. 
  • "The Tibetan Book of the Dead": A Biography. Princeton University Press. 7 February 2011. ISBN 1-4008-3804-5. 
  • Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed. The University of Chicago Press. 15 May 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-49324-4. 
  • The Madman’s Middle Way, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Buddhism: An Introduction and Guide, Penguin UK, 2001; published in US as The Story of Buddhism, Harper: San Francisco, 2001
  • Italian translation, Che cos'è il Buddhismo, Rome, Ubaldini Editore, 2002.
  • Czech edition, 2003.
  • Spanish edition, 2009.
  • Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. University of Chicago Press. 1 May 1999. ISBN 978-0-226-49311-4. 
  • Italian translation, Prigionieri di Shangri-La, Rome, Ubaldini Editore, 1999.
  • French translation, Fascination tibétaine : du bouddhisme, de l'Occident et de quelques mythes, Paris, Éditions Autrement, 2003.
  • Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra, Princeton University Press, 1996; reprint edition, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1998.
  • The Heart Sutra Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries. SUNY Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-88706-589-7. 
  • A Study of Svatantrika, Snow Lion Press, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 1987.
  • Co-authored and co-edited the award-winning The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. See § As editor for details.

    • As editor

  • Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr., authors and editors. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780691157863.
  • Donald S. Lopez Jr., ed. Buddhism in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-8121508322. Abridged edition, 2007, ISBN 978-0691129686.

    • References

    Donald S. Lopez Jr. Wikipedia
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