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'''Leonard van der Kuijp''' (born September 23 1952) is a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairman of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian studies at [[Harvard University]].
Leonard van der Kuijp began his studies in [[mathematics]], but then shifted his attention to [[Tibet]]. He received his master's degree at the [[University of Saskatchewan]] in [[Saskatoon]], Canada, and his doctorate at the [[University of Hamburg]] in Germany.
In 1993 van der Kuijp received the [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]] for "pioneering contributions to the study of Tibetan epistemology, biography and poetry."<ref>Valerie J. MacMillan, [http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/8/1/tibetan-expert-joins-sanskrit-faculty-pleonard/ "Tibetan Expert Joins Sanskrit Faculty,"] ''The Harvard Crimson,'' August 1, 1995. Retrieved April 6, 2010.</ref>. Van der Kuijp worked with the Nepal Research Center of the [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] and the [[University of Washington]] in Seattle. In July 1995 he joined the faculty at Harvard University. In 1999, he founded the [[Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center]] (TBRC), together with [[E. Gene Smith]].
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