Kurtis R. Schaeffer

About The Author

Kurtis R. Schaeffer is the Frances Myers Ball Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he co-directs the Tibetan Buddhist Studies Program. His books include Himalayan HermitessDreaming the Great BrahminThe Culture of the Book in TibetAn Early Tibetan Catalogue of Buddhist Literature (with Leonard van der Kuijp), and The Life of the Buddha by Tenzin Chögyel.

Books by Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Histories of Tibet

Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of Leonard van der Kuijp, whose groundbreaking research in Tibetan intellectual and cultural history imbued his students with an abiding sense of curiosity and discovery.
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