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12 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
“He’s a professor at the University of Michigan, the author of many, many books on Buddhism, which I think I’ve read all of.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 12 Nov 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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- Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
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…Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today, I am very excited to be chatting with Donald S. Lopez Jr. I think of Donald as the West’s leading expert on Buddhism. He’s a professor at the University of Michigan, the author of many, many books on Buddhism, which I think I’ve read all of. He’s one of the editors of The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, and he has a new book out this year, called The Buddha: Biography of a Myth. Donald, welcome. Thanks for inviting me. Very happy to be here.…
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