Leonard van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Harvard University, Chairman of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altai Studies, PhD from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He assisted E. Gene Smith in founding the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC), now the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). He has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016). His areas of academic research include Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibetan cultural history, and pre-modern Sino-Tibetan Tibetan-Mongolian political and religious relations. His major scholarly works include Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century (co-authored), and Bcom Idan ral gri (1227-1305) on Indian Buddhist Logic and Epistemology (co-authored).

Title: "Si tu Paṇ chen (1699-1774): One of China's Greatest Eighteenth Century Scholars"

Time: 15:20-16:00, November 6th