# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-harding
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:38:12.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-harding"
name: "Douglas Harding"
slug: "douglas-harding"
description: "Douglas Edison Harding was an English philosophical writer, mystic, spiritual teacher. He authored several books, including On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious (1961), which presents practical methods aimed at helping readers directly experience non-duality and the concept of anattā (selflessness), rather than merely understanding them intellectually."
tagline: "British philosopher (1909–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-02-12"
deathDate: "2007-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.914238134887593
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Дуглас Хардінг"
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    title: "Douglas Harding"
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    title: "Douglas Harding"
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    title: "ダグラス・ハーディング"
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    title: "Douglas Harding"
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    title: "Douglas Harding"
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    title: "Хардинг, Дуглас"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump