Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. (born 1952) is an American scholar of Buddhism and the Arthur E. Link Distinguished university professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
[2] 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.
[3] In 2008, he gave 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, "The White Lama Ippolito".
He is a long-term associate of Yale professor of New Testament studies Dale Martin.