Donald S. Lopez

Donald S. Lopez, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, where he specialized in Tibetan Buddhism. As a Fulbright scholar in India, he studied Madhyamika philosophy with leading Tibetan scholars. After teaching in the Department of Religion at Middlebury College, he is now Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books on Buddhism and Tibet, including A Study of Svatantrika, Elaborations on Emptiness, and The Heart Sutra Explained.