Sam van Schaik
PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works |
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FirstName / namefirst | Sam |
LastName / namelast | van Schaik |
MainNamePhon | Sam van Schaik |
bio | 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. In February 2019 van Schaik was appointed as the head of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library. (Source Accessed Aug 5, 2020) |
associatedwebsite | http://idp.bl.uk // |
affiliation | Endangered Archives Programme, British Library |
affiliationsecondary | International Dunhuang Project |
phduniversity | University of Manchester |
cv | Sam Van Schaik has worked with the Stein Collection at the British Library for the International Dunhuang Project (IDP: http://idp.bl.uk) since 1999. In the beginning, Sam worked on the Central Asian manuscripts from the Tibetan imperial period. Between 2002 and 2005 Sam compiled a detailed catalogue of the Tibetan tantric manuscripts from Dunhuang. At the moment Sam is engaged in an ongoing research project on the palaeography of the Tibetan and Chinese Dunhuang manuscripts. Recent publications include Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (Brill, 2010) and Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-century Buddhist Pilgrim (de Gruyter, 2010). Source-(Accessed Feb 7, 2011). |
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Full Name[edit]
Sam van Schaik
Affiliation[edit]
Sam van Schaik
International Dunhuang Project
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
http://idp.bl.uk
http://earlytibet.com
Other Information[edit]
Author of the http://earlytibet.com/author/ blog
Project manager International Dunhuang Project (IDP)
Sam Van Schaik has worked with the Stein Collection at the British Library for the International Dunhuang Project (IDP: http://idp.bl.uk) since 1999. In the beginning, Sam worked on the Central Asian manuscripts from the Tibetan imperial period. Between 2002 and 2005 Sam compiled a detailed catalogue of the Tibetan tantric manuscripts from Dunhuang. At the moment Sam is engaged in an ongoing research project on the palaeography of the Tibetan and Chinese Dunhuang manuscripts. Recent publications include Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (Brill, 2010) and Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-century Buddhist Pilgrim (de Gruyter, 2010). Source-(Accessed Feb 7, 2011).
Sun and Moon Earrings: Teachings Received by Jigmé Lingpa by Sam van Schaik. Originally published in the Tibet Journal 25.4 (2000): 3–32. It is reproduced here without any substantial changes.