# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willigis-jager
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:14:09.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willigis-jager"
name: "Willigis Jäger"
slug: "willigis-jager"
description: "Willigis Jäger was a German Catholic priest and Benedictine monk. He was a Zen master who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition. Jäger founded a centre of Zen and contemplation at the Münsterschwarzach Abbey in 1983, and his own Benediktushof, an inter-faith centre of meditation and awareness, in 2003."
tagline: "German Buddhist teacher (1925-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willigis_J%C3%A4ger_B.G..jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-03-07"
deathDate: "2020-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump