# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pema-chodron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:37:42.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pema-chodron"
name: "Pema Chödrön"
slug: "pema-chodron"
description: "Pema Chödrön is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and was principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She retired in 2020."
tagline: "American philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pema_chodron_2007_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.83
  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.269988
  currentAttention:     6.840000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://pemachodronfoundation.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيما شودرون"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%85%D8%A7_%DA%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "پما چدرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n"
    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pema Chödrön"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "佩瑪·丘卓"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump