# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-liebenthal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:00.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-liebenthal"
name: "Walter Liebenthal"
slug: "walter-liebenthal"
description: "Walter Liebenthal\n(12 June 1886 – 15 November 1982) was a German philosopher and sinologist who specialized in Chinese Buddhism. He translated many philosophical works from Pali, Sanskrit and specially from Chinese into German. Based upon his extensive research in Indian Buddhism and Chinese religion, one of his main conclusions was that early Chinese Buddhism through Ch'an (Zen-) was not a Chinese version of Indian Buddhism, but rather, that it developed from Taoism, a Chinese religion. Indian concepts are present, but at the core it represents a Chinese perspective."
tagline: "German sinologist (1886–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Liebenthal_-_1968-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886"
deathDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           5.472966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Liebenthal"
    title: "Walter Liebenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "والتر ليبينثال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Liebenthal"
    title: "Walter Liebenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%8D%8E%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "李华德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Liebenthal"
    title: "Walter Liebenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Liebenthal"
    title: "Walter Liebenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88176"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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