# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-olivelle
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:11:18.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-olivelle"
name: "Patrick Olivelle"
slug: "patrick-olivelle"
description: "Patrick Olivelle is an Indologist. A philologist and scholar of Sanskrit Literature whose work has focused on asceticism, renunciation and the dharma, Olivelle has been Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin since 1991."
tagline: "Sri Lankan Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (born 1942)"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.156481333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump