Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Donald S. Lopez Jr.
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Born1952 (age 71–72)
Washington, D.C.
ReligionUnknown
EducationUniversity of Virginia
OccupationProfessor of buddhist and tibetan studies
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Senior posting
Based inUniversity of Michigan

Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. (born 1952) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished university professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.[1]

Life

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Lopez was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of U.S. Air Force pilot and Smithsonian Institution official Donald Lopez. He was educated at the University of Virginia, receiving a B.A. (Hons) in Religious Studies in 1974, an M.A. in Buddhist Studies in 1977, and his doctorate in Buddhist Studies in 1982.[1] He is married to another prominent Religious Studies scholar, Tomoko Masuzawa.[2]

Lopez is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has written and edited many books on various aspects of the religions of Asia. He specializes in late Indian Mahayana Buddhism and in Tibetan Buddhism and commands classical and colloquial Tibetan.[3] In 2008, he gave four talks on The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future as part of a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University. In 2012, he delivered the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures at Harvard, "The White Lama Ippolito".

He is a long-term associate of Yale professor of New Testament studies Dale Martin.[4]

Works

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Donald S. Lopez Jr" (PDF). Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Lopez, Donald S. Jr. Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1998, x
  3. ^ "University of Michigan". Archived from the original on February 11, 2007.
  4. ^ Donald Lopez (introduction Dale Martin) (2008). The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future – "A Purified Religion" (lecturer introduction) (YouTube video). Yale University. Event occurs at 01:35~02:31. Retrieved April 23, 2015. I've known Don Lopez for about twenty years. I began teaching at Duke University in 1988, and Don's wife, Tomoko Masuzawa, who is a theorist in religious studies, was in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, just down the road. Don, who was just about to start teaching then at the University of Michigan, would be in Chapel Hill regularly. We all became not only colleagues and regular dialogue partners on issues of religion and culture; we also became good friends. We've eaten many dinners together, and drunk much wine; we've commiserated together through many disappointing political seasons, especially, it seems, in North Carolina during the Jesse Helms Dark Ages. But we've also vacationed together on the beaches in North Carolina. Both Tomoko and Don are valued friends, and it's with real joy and affection that I introduce him tonight.
  5. ^ "Buddha Takes the Mound | Donald Lopez Jr. | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  6. ^ Hyecho's Journey. University of Chicago Press – via press.uchicago.edu.
  7. ^ a b c d "Donald S. Lopez Jr. | U-M LSA Asian Languages and Cultures". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  8. ^ "Book Review: Donald Lopez on Buddhism and Science". Seculal Buddhist Association. October 10, 2012. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  9. ^ From source mentioned and linked to in the text. Page iv describes them both as both authors and editors. Retrieved August 28, 2016. "Winner of the 2015 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association. One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014."
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External videos
video icon The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future – "A Purified Religion", Yale University, October 1, 2008
video icon The Unfortunate Idol Fo: The Story of a Forgotten Buddha, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, April 17, 2012