Leonard van der Kuijp

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Harvard University, where he chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and has written numerous works on Tibetan history and Buddhist epistemology, including Bcom ldan ral gri (1227–1305) on Buddhist Epistemology and Logic: His Commentary on Dignaga's Pramanasamuccaya (co-author Arthur P. McKeown),  An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature: The Bstan pa rgyas pa nyi ’od of Bcom ldan rig ral (co-author Kurtis R. Schaeffer), Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology: From the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century, and over ninety articles. His research focuses on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, and premodern Tibetan relations with Mongolia and China.