# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharon-salzberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:49:14.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharon-salzberg"
name: "Sharon Salzberg"
slug: "sharon-salzberg"
description: "Sharon Salzberg is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods, and she has been leading meditation retreats around the world for several decades."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharon_Salzberg_(49614105351).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.331858407079646
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 7540
platforms:
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    handle:    "SharonSalzberg"
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    handle:    "sharonsalzberg"
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    handle:    "Sharon.Salzberg"
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    handle:    "sharonsalzberg"
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    handle:    "@sharonsalzbergvideo"
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    title: "شارون سالزبيرج"
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    title: "Sharon Salzberg"
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    title: "Sharon Salzberg"
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    title: "Sharon Salzberg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump