# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/huston-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:10:43.030Z

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name: "Huston Smith"
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description: "Huston Cummings Smith was a Chinese-born American scholar of religious studies, He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book about comparative religion, The World's Religions sold over three million copies as of 2017."
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deathDate: "2016-12-30"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump