Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist.
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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]
In February 2019 van Schaik was appointed as the head of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library.[5]
Van Schaik is the author or co-author of:
- Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Approaches to Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004). ISBN 0861713702
- Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library, co-authored with Jacob Dalton (Leiden: Brill, 2006). ISBN 9789004154223[6]
- Tibet: A History (London: Yale University Press, 2011). ISBN 9780300154047[7]
- Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim, coauthored with Imre Galambos (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012). ISBN 9783110225648[8]
- Tibetan Zen: Discovering a Lost Tradition (Boston & London: Snow Lion, 2015). ISBN 9781559394468[9]
- The Spirit of Zen (Yale University Press, 2018),[10] winner of the 2019 Tianzhu Book Prize for Excellence in Chan Studies[11]
- Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment Through the Ages (Boulder: Shambhala 2020) ISBN 9781611808254[12]
His edited volumes include:
He is also the translator of:
- Dhongthog Rinpoche, The Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism: A History, Translated by Sam van Schaik (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, Inc., 2016).
"Sam Van Schaik". The British Library. 14 February 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019. Review of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang:
Reviews of Tibet: A History:
- Bence, Charlotte (June 2011). "Review". Socialist Review. 359.
- Bhattacharya, Abanti (19 May 2012). "Exhaustive study of Tibet". Economic and Political Weekly. 47 (20): 37–39. JSTOR 23214624.
- Bischoff, Jeannine (August 2012). "Rezension". Sehepunkte (in German). 12 (7–8).
- Hill, Nathan (2012). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 75 (1): 190–192. doi:10.1017/S0041977X11001108. JSTOR 23258923.
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- Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Amy (June 2016). Journal of World History. 27 (2): 373–378. doi:10.1353/jwh.2016.0099. JSTOR 43901867.
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- Jagou, Fabienne (2010–2011). Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (in French). 97–98: 444–445. JSTOR 43733250.
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- Jansen, Berthe (2012). "Review". Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. 2: 255–258.
- Joshi, Manoj (1 January 2012). "Tibet: So near yet so far". India Today.
- Schellhase, John. "Of priests and patrons". The Mantle.
- Singh, Priyanka (July 2012). Asian Affairs. 43 (2): 310–311. doi:10.1080/03068374.2012.682720. S2CID 162279810.
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- Sudbury, Jill (July 2012). Buddhist Studies Review. 29 (1): 142–144. doi:10.1558/bsrv.v29i1.142.
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- Sullivan, Brenton (November 2012). The Journal of Asian Studies. 71 (4): 1135–1139. doi:10.1017/S0021911812001489. JSTOR 23357455.
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Reviews of Manuscripts and Travellers:
Reviews of The Spirit of Zen:
Reviews of Buddhist Magic:
Reviews of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang:
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