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Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Ph.D. University of Virginia) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. His works include Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra, Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism, Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, The Story of Buddhism, The Madman’s Middle Way, The Scientific Buddha, From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (with Robert Buswell), and In Search of the Christian Buddha (with Peggy McCracken, published by Norton). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute. In 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Books by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
Donald S. Lopez Jr., Peggy McCracken
Hardback, 2014
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.
The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism
Donald S. Lopez Jr., Jack Miles
Paperback, 2015
This groundbreaking new Norton Anthology enables the six major, living, international world religions to speak to students in their own words.
In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
Donald S. Lopez Jr., Peggy McCracken
E Book, 2014
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.
The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Volume 1: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism; Volume 2: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Jack Miles, Wendy Doniger, Donald S. Lopez Jr., James Robson, David Biale, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Hardback, 2014
This groundbreaking new Norton Anthology enables the six major, living, international world religions to speak to students in their own words.

Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Books by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism

In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Volume 1: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism; Volume 2: Judaism, Christianity, Islam