Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp (, born September 23, 1952) is a

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professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and former chair of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies (now the Department of South Asian Studies) at

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. Leonard van der Kuijp began his studies in

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, but then shifted his attention to

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. He received his master's degree at the

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, Canada, and his doctorate at the

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in Germany. In 1993 van der Kuijp received the

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for "pioneering contributions to the study of Tibetan epistemology, biography and poetry.". Van der Kuijp worked with the Nepal Research Center of the

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and the

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in Seattle. In July 1995 he joined the faculty at Harvard University. In 1999, he founded the

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(TBRC), together with

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. Van der Kuijp was elected a foreign member of the

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in 2018. Van der Kuijp focuses his research primarily on the Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibetan Buddhism and the relations of Tibet to

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and

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. He coauthored ''An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature'' which was published as volume 64 of the

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in 2008.

Journal publications

* van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. "Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge's Impact on Tibetan Epistemological Theory." Journal of Indian Philosophy 5 (1978): 355-369. * van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. ''Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology: From the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century''. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983. * van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. "Studies in the Life and Thought of Mkhas grub rje I: Mkhas grub rje's Epistemological Oeuvre and His Philosophical Remarks on Dignaga's Pramanasamuccaya." Berliner Indologische Studien 1 (1985): 75-105. * van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. "On the Sources for Sa skya Paṇḍita's Notes on the Bsam yas Debate." The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 9.2 (1986): 147-153. * van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. "The Abbatial Succession of Gsang phu ne'u thog Monastery from ca.1073 to 1250. " Berliner Indologische Studien 3 (1987), 103-127. * van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. Review Article. "On The Lives of Śākyaśrībhadra (?-1225)." Journal of the American Oriental Society 114.4 (1994): 599-616. * van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. "Some Remarks on the Textual Transmission and Text of Bu ston Rin chen grub's Chos 'byung, a Chronicle of Buddhism in India and Tibet." Revue d'Études Tibétaines 25 (2013): 111-89.

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External links

Biography on TBRC
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