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Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist.
Sam van Schaik | |
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.jpg) Sam van Schaik at SOAS University of London in 2013 | |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Known for | Study of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Tibetology |
| Institutions | British Library |
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 van Schaik has worked at the British Library in London, where he is currently the Head of the Endangered Archives Programme[2] a position to which he was appointed in February 2019. He was previously a project manager for the International Dunhuang Project, specialising in the study of Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang.[3] He has also taught occasional courses at SOAS, University of London.[4]
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.[5]
Van Schaik is the author or co-author of:
His edited volumes include:
He is also the translator of:
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