Gregory Schopen

PersonType	Category:Professors Emeritus
MainNamePhon	Gregory Schopen
bio	Gregory Schopen's work focuses on Indian Buddhist monastic life and early Mahāyāna movements. By looking beyond the Pali Canon in favor of less commonly used sources such as the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya and Indian Buddhist inscriptions, his numerous scholarly works have shifted the field away from Buddhism as portrayed through its own doctrines toward a more realistic picture of the actual lives of Buddhists, both monastic and lay. In this sense, he has seriously challenged many assumptions and myths about Buddhism that had been long perpetuated in earlier Western scholarship. In 1985 he received the MacArthur Fellowship for his work in the field of History of Religion. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Four volumes of his collected articles have been published by the University of Hawai'i Press: Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters (2014), Figments and Fragments of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India (2005), Buddhist Monks and Business Matters (2004), and Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks (1999). (Source Accessed October 21, 2019)
YearBirth	1947
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Sanskrit; Tibetan; Chinese
languagetarget	English
affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles; Deptartment of Asian Languages and Cultures
IsInGyatsa	No
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Full Name

Gregory Schopen

Education

M.A. McMaster University, 1975
Ph.D. Australia National University, 1979

Affiliation

Gregory Schopen is professor of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Professor Gregory Schopen (MA McMaster University, 1975; PhD ANU, 1979) has taught at the Universities of Michigan, Washington, Indiana, Texas, Stanford, and California. He was awarded a prestigious MacArthur “genius” fellowship (1985-1990) in recognition of his work in Buddhist Studies, which has been described as “Unquestionably the freshest, most exciting scholarship to have emerged in the field in half a century.” Professor Schopen’s numerous publications include:

• Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks. University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.
• Buddhist Monks and Business Matters. University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.
• Figments and Fragments of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India. University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.
  

Source

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.

Vinaya refers to the corpus of Buddhist teachings on moral discipline and precepts and is one of the three canonical sets of teachings alongside Sūtra and Abhidharma. It also refers to the monastic tradition which has been passed down since the Buddha's time until our time.