# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samten-g-karmay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:58:17.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samten-g-karmay"
name: "Samten G. Karmay"
slug: "samten-g-karmay"
description: "Samten Gyeltsen Karmay is a Tibetan writer and researcher in the field of Tibetan Studies. His work is focused on the study of Tibetan myths, beliefs, the Bon religion and religious history."
tagline: "French Tibetologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samten_Karmay_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.804392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%B2"
    title: "كارماى سامتن ز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_G._Karmay"
    title: "Samten G. Karmay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_Karmay"
    title: "Samten Karmay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_G._Karmay"
    title: "Samten G. Karmay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_Gyaltsen_Karmay"
    title: "Samten Gyaltsen Karmay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465121"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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