Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist.

He obtained a PhD in Tibetan Buddhist literature at the University of Manchester in 2000, with a dissertation on the translations of Dzogchen texts by Jigme Lingpa.

[1] Since 1999 van Schaik has worked at the British Library in London, where he is currently the Head of the Endangered Archives Programme[2] a position to which he was appointed in February 2019.

[4] From 2003 to 2005 van Schaik worked on a project to catalogue Tibetan Tantric manuscripts in the Stein Collection of the British Library, and from 2005 to 2008 he worked on a project to study the palaeography of Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang, in an attempt to identify individual scribes.

[5] Van Schaik is the author or co-author of: His edited volumes include: He is also the translator of: