Jamieson, R.

Jamieson, R. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Librarians

Robert Craig Jamieson

English Phonetics	Craig Jamieson
Sort Name	Jamieson, Robert Craig

Dates

Birth:	1953/06/27
Place of birth:	Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Month
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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Jamieson

About

Education

University of London (MPhil) University of Cambridge (MA) Lampeter (BA)

Biographical Information

Craig Jamieson is Keeper of Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge. Before Cambridge he taught Buddhism in the Study of Religion Department at the University of Leicester. His best-known works are Perfection of Wisdom, which has a preface by the Dalai Lama, and Nagarjuna's Verses. A facsimile edition of the Lotus Sutra made available in print two Cambridge palm leaf manuscripts from around one thousand years ago, Add. 1682 and Add. 1683. A major exhibition took place in 2014 entitled Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond. A short video of the Perfection of Wisdom manuscript came out in 2017. (Adapted from Source Mar 10, 2021)

Links

Wiki Pages

• Jamieson, R. on the DRL
• Jamieson, R. on the LIB

Full Name

R.C. Jamieson

The Blue Annals

A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school.