# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walpola-rahula
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:42:29.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walpola-rahula"
name: "Walpola Rahula"
slug: "walpola-rahula"
description: "Walpola Rahula Thera was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer. In 1964, he became the Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern University, thus becoming the first bhikkhu to hold a professorial chair in the Western world. He also once held the position of Vice-Chancellor at the then Vidyodaya University. He has written extensively about Buddhism in English, French and Sinhala. He wrote the book What the Buddha Taught about Theravada Buddhism."
tagline: "Sri Lankan philosopher (1907–1997)"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1907-05-09"
deathDate: "1997-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump