Gregory Schopen is Professor of

Buddhist Studies Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Budd ...

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

. He received his B.A. majoring in American literature from Black Hills State College, M.A. in history of religions from

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

in Ontario, Canada, and Ph.D. in South Asian and Buddhist studies from the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

in Canberra. His Ph.D thesis is titled "

Bhaisajyaguru Bhaiṣajyaguru ( sa, भैषज्यगुरु, zh, t= , ja, 薬師仏, ko, 약사불, bo, སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ), or ''Bhaishajyaguru'', formally Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja ("Medicine Master ...

-sutra and the Buddhism of

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Awards

* 1985

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Works

''Bones, stones, and Buddhist monks: collected papers on the archaeology, epigraphy, and texts of monastic Buddhism in India''
University of Hawaii Press, 1997,
''Buddhist monks and business matters: still more papers on monastic Buddhism in India''
University of Hawaii Press, 2004,
''Figments and fragments of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India: more collected papers''
University of Hawaii Press, 2005,
''Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India''
University of Hawaii Press, 2014,

References

External links

The Buddha as a Businessman
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