Author

Jampa Samten

Retired Professor

Jampa Samten is Professor of History of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan History, at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (Deemed University), Varanasi. A leading scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, his research focuses on the history of the Tibetan Buddhist canon and canonical literature preserved in Tibetan. He earned his PhD from Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, with a dissertation on the Samvarodaya Tantra and its commentary by the 12th-century Indian scholar Ratnarakshita. He has authored over 30 research papers and 10 books, including A Catalogue of the Phug Manuscript Kanjur (1992) and From Tibet Confidentially: Secret Correspondence of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to Agvan Dorzhiev, 1911–1925 (2012). His current research includes A History of the Tibetan Tripitaka and a critical edition of the Samvarodaya Tantra in Sanskrit and Tibetan.