Sam van Schaik
Sam Julius van Schaik is an English Tibetologist. He obtained a PhD in Tibetan Buddhist literature at the University of Manchester in 2000, with a dissertation on the translations of Dzogchen texts by Jigme Lingpa.[1]
Since 1999 he has worked at the British Library in London, and is currently a project manager for the International Dunhuang Project, specialising in the study of Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang.[2] He has also taught occasional courses at SOAS, University of London.[3]
From 2003 to 2005 van Schaik worked on a project to catalogue Tibetan Tantric manuscripts in the Stein Collection of the British Library, and from 2005 to 2008 he worked on a project to study the palaeography of Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang, in an attempt to identify individual scribes.[4]
Books
See:
Sam van Schaik#Books, Wikipedia
Notes
- ↑ "IDP Research Profiles : Sam van Schaik". International Dunhuang Project. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
- ↑ "Staff Research Profiles : Dr Sam van Schaik". British Library. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
- ↑ "earlyTibet : The Author". Retrieved 2011-03-05.
- ↑ "IDP Research Projects". International Dunhuang Project. Retrieved 2011-03-05.