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|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}}

|birth_place = [[Washington, D.C]].

|occupation = Professor of Buddhistbuddhist and Tibetantibetan Studiesstudies<br />[[Author]]author

'''Donald Sewell Lopez Jr.''' (born 1952) is the [[Arthur E. Link]] Distinguished [[Universityuniversity Professor]]professor of Buddhist and [[Tibetology|Tibetan Studies]] at the [[University of Michigan]], in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.<ref name="bio">{{Waybackcite |date=20080528090105web |url=http://icks.korea.ac.kr/conf/cv/donald_lopez.pdf |title=Donald S. Lopez Jr. |access-date=2006-11-18 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528090105/http://icks.korea.ac.kr/conf/cv/donald_lopez.pdf |archive-date=May 28, 2008 }}</ref>

Lopez was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of U.S. Air Force pilot and Smithsonian Institution official [[Donald S. Lopez, Sr.|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.<ref name="bio"/> He is married to another prominent Religious Studies scholar, [[Tomoko Masuzawa]].<ref>Lopez, Donald S. Jr. ''Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West''. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1998, x</ref>

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.<ref name="umich">[{{Cite web|url=http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol8no1/lopez.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211104918/http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol8no1/lopez.html|url-status=dead|title=University of Michigan]|archivedate=February 11, 2007}}</ref> In 2008, he gave a 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, [[Ippolito Desideri|"The White Lama Ippolito"]].

He is a long-term associate of Yale professor of New Testament studies [[Dale Martin (scholar)|Dale Martin]].<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Donald Lopez (introduction Dale Martin) |date= |year=2008 |title=The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future -– "A Purified Religion" (lecturer introduction) |trans-title= |medium=YouTube video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BdHm7E6cM |access-date=April 23, 2015 |archive-url= |archive-date= |format= |time=01:35~02:31 |location= |publisher=Yale University |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote=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. |ref= }}</ref>

==Books publishedWorks==

** Italian translation, ''Che cos'è il Buddhismo'', Rome, Ubaldini Editore, 2002.

** Czech edition, 2003.

** Spanish edition, 2009.

* {{cite book| title=Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjUHF7kQfVAC|date=1 May 1, 1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-49311-4}}

* Co-authored and co-edited the award-winning ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism''. See [[#As editor|§ As editor]] for details.

* Donald S. Lopez Jr., ed. ''Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha'', University of Chicago Press, 2016. {{ISBN|9780226493183}}
* [[Robert E. Buswell Jr.]] & Donald S. Lopez Jr., authors and editors. ''[http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10099.html The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism]'', Princeton University Press, 2013, {{ISBN |9780691157863}}.<ref>From source mentioned and linked to in the text. Page iv describes them both as both authors and editors. Retrieved 28 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."</ref>

* Donald S. Lopez Jr., ed. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8392.html ''BuddhismCritical Terms for inthe PracticeStudy of Buddhism''],. Princeton:University Princetonof UniversityChicago Press, 19952005, {{ISBN|9780226493145}}<ref 978-8121508322.name=":0" Abridged edition, 2007, ISBN 978-0691129686./>

* [[Buddhism and science]]

* [[Shangri-la]]

|video1= [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BdHm7E6cM The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future -– "A Purified Religion"], ''Yale University'', October 1, 2008

* {{cite web|url=http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/julyaugust/iq/impertinent-questions-donald-s-lopez-jr|title=Impertinent Questions with Donald S. Lopez Jr.|publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities}}

* {{cite webjournal|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/4750978.0008.104?rgn=main;view=fulltext |title=An Interview with Donald Lopez: On the Resurgence of Interest in Buddhism|journal=Journal of the International Institute |year=2000 |volume=8 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Michigan}}

* [http://www.berfrois.com/2011/04/life-death-rebirth-tibetan-book-of-dead/ "The Life, Death and Rebirth of The Tibetan Book of the Dead"], Donald S. Lopez Jr., ''Berfrois'', 13 April 13, 2011

* [http://www.info-buddhism.com/Scientific_Buddha_Lopez.html "The Scientific Buddha"], Donald S. Lopez Jr., 08 May 8, 2016

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