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...

Van Schaik is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from/of Schaik". Variants include Van Schaaik, Van Schaick, Van Schaïk, Van Schaijk and Van Schayk. While...

become some of the largest monasteries in the world). According to Sam van Schaik these Gelug centers "came to form a triumvirate of massive Gelug monasteries...

resonated "internally" or "secretly" through intentionality. According to Sam Van Schaik, Tibetan works from Dunhuang which was a major cult center of Avalokitesvara...

Mahayana sources like the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. Furthermore, scholars like Sam van Schaik see Dzogchen as having arisen out of tantric Buddhist completion stage...

Bon – have been involved in the promoting Rimé ideals. According to Sam van Schaik, eclectic and non-sectarian tendencies existed in Tibetan Buddhism before...

Tibet: A History is a nonfiction book by Sam Van Schaik. The book provides an encyclopedic view on Tibetan history from the seventh century to the present...

Kalupahana 1992, p. 228–236. McRae 2003, p. 123. Van Schaik, Tibetan Zen, page 1. Sam van Schaik, Where Chan and Tantra Meet: Buddhist Syncretism in...

Medieval India. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-81-208-0690-0. Sam Van Schaik (2011). Tibet: A History. Yale University Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-300-17217-1...

be illustrated by comparing it to a "mirror's capacity to reflect." Sam van Schaik explains this as "a presence that is spontaneous in that it is not created...

Arhats. (accessed: January 14, 2008)] Sam van Schaik (2008), Tibetan Chan I: The Emperor's Chan Sam van Schaik (2008), Tibetan Chan II: the teachings...

of the Buddhist caves were restored. — Translation by Sam van Schaik. According to Sam van Schaik, "Mendre" could be the Indo-Greek king Menander, or the...

headquarters; the Dalai Lama states that he agreed.: 130  However, Tibetologist Sam van Schaik stated that the Dalai Lama was the one who proposed that the dance should...

(which cannot be found by searching nor identified) is called rigpa. Sam van Schaik translates rigpa as "gnosis" which he glosses as "a form of awareness...

regents through whom the Mongols ruled Tibet. However according to Sam van Schaik, this is an oversimplification, and the Mongols ruled Tibet as a colony...

2014, pp. 473–91. Bira 2011, p. 14. Hill, Nathan (2011). Review of Sam van Schaik. Tibet: A History (PDF). London and New York: Yale University Press...

Asian and African Studies 13, [1] p. 168. Giuseppe Tucci (1949 p. 28. Sam van Schaik (2011) Tibet: A History, New Haven & London: Yale University Press,...

Medieval India. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-81-208-0690-0. Sam Van Schaik (2011). Tibet: A History. Yale University Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-300-17217-1...

OCLC 40714203. Shakya 1999 p.12,20,21 Feigon 1996 p.142. Shakya 1999 p.37. Sam van Schaik, Tibet. A History, Yale University Press, 2013, p. 2009: "So when Ngapo...

or Dzogchen. It thus constitutes a complete path to enlightenment." Sam van Schaik lists the contents of the major thematic sections of the Longchen Nyingthig...

Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library. Co-authored with Sam van Schaik. Leiden: Brill, 2006. “The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva.” In:...

practice of a particular yidam being passed through the family lineage. Sam van Schaik writes that the "tantric practitioner (sngags pa, Skt. māntrin) became[when...

Medieval India. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-81-208-0690-0. Sam Van Schaik (2011). Tibet: A History. Yale University Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-300-17217-1...

Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-11814-9 Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik, 2011 Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-154047 Society portal List...

specialised in the study of Dunhuang manuscripts, and collaborated with Sam van Schaik on a study of a Dunhuang manuscript comprising the letters of a 10th-century...

Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 273–. ISBN 978-0-521-85558-7. Sam van Schaik (28 June 2011). Tibet: A History. Yale University Press. pp. 8–....

samsaric appearances; and gzhi, "the nirvanic basis known as the ground." Sam van Schaik: "....the Seminal Heart distinction between two types of basis, the...

'pristine consciousness') and shes rab (prajñā, wisdom). According to Sam van Schaik, two significant terms used in Dzogchen literature is the ground (gzhi)...

traditions, and all were worthy of study and preservation. According to Sam van Schaik, without this collecting and printing of rare works, the later suppression...

van Schaik (2004b), p. 40. van Schaik (2004a). van Schaik (2011). van Schaik (2004b), p. 4. Germano (1994), p. 234-235. Anspal (2005). van Schaik (2004b)...