Sam van Schaik | |
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 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 |
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]
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:
His edited volumes include:
He is also the translator of:
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