Location
Age
Area of FocusAbout Leonard's Work
Leonard van der Kuijp is a philologist and a historian.
Van der Kuijp has done research in China and Tibet and has extensive knowledge of the language and culture of classical and modern Tibet, as well as of Buddhist philosophy and ofTibetan intellectual, literary, and political history. He conducted fieldwork with Tibetan scholars in Nepal and Tibet while he was deputy director of the Nepal Research Centre and research associate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1980-85). In addition to his numerous, professional journal articles, he is the author of Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries (1983). His recent research focuses on the early history of the esoteric Kalacakra cycle in India and Tibet.
Biography
Van der Kuijp is a professor of Tibetan and Himalayan studies in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University. His articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Indian Philosophy.
Van der Kuijp received a B.A. (1975) and an M.A. (1976) from the University of Saskatchewan and a D.Phil. (1979) from the University of Hamburg.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on July 1, 1993
