# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-evans-wentz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:01:45.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-evans-wentz"
name: "Walter Evans-Wentz"
slug: "walter-evans-wentz"
description: "Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz was an American anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, and in transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world, most known for publishing an early English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1927. He had three other texts translated from the Tibetan: Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa (1928), Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935), and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954), and wrote the preface to Paramahansa Yogananda's famous spiritual book, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)."
tagline: "Anthropologist, orientalist, writer (1878-1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Crop_Walter_Evans-Wentz_1919.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1878-02-02"
deathDate: "1965-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3948667324777888
  historical:           8.571241333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Walter Evans-Wentz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump