Citizenship United Kingdom Role Scribe | Name Sam Schaik Institutions British Library Fields Tibetology | |
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Alma mater University of Manchester Known for Study of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang Books Tibet: A History, Tibetan Zen: Discoveri, Approaching the Great Perfectio, Tibetan Tantric Manuscri | ||
Education University of Manchester | ||
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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. 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. He has also taught occasional courses at SOAS, University of London.
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.