# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-s-lopez-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:16:19.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-s-lopez-jr"
name: "Donald S. Lopez, Jr."
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description: "Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. is an American scholar of Buddhism and 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."
tagline: "American scholar of Buddhism"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/people/faculty/dlopez.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump