Gregory Schopen adalah Profesor Studi Buddhis di Universitas California, Los Angeles. ia menerima gelar B.A. dengan mengambil jurusan sastra Amerika dari Black Hills State College, M.A dalam sejarah agama dari Universitas McMaster di Ontario, Kanada, dan Ph.D. dalam studi Asia Selatan dan Buddhisme dari Universitas Nasional Australia di Canberra. Tesis Ph.D-nya berjudul "Bhaisajyaguru-sutra dan Buddhisme Gilgit."[1]
- MacArthur Fellows Program (1985)
- Bones, stones, and Buddhist monks: collected papers on the archaeology, epigraphy, and texts of monastic Buddhism in India, University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8248-1870-8
- Buddhist monks and business matters: still more papers on monastic Buddhism in India, University of Hawaii Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8248-2774-8
- Figments and fragments of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India: more collected papers, University of Hawaii Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8248-2548-5
- Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India Diarsipkan 2023-08-09 di Wayback Machine., University of Hawaii Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8248-3881-2