Sarat Chandra Dash (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র দাশ) (18 July 1849 – 5 January 1917) was an Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture most noted for his two journeys to Tibet in 1879 and in 1881–1882.

Born in Chittagong, eastern Bengal to a Bengali Hindu Vaidya-Brahmin family,[1] Sarat Chandra Dash attended Presidency College, as a student of the University of Calcutta.

They remained in Tibet for six months, returning to Darjeeling with a large collection of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts which would become the basis for his later scholarship.

[3] For a time, he worked as a spy for the British, accompanying Colman Macaulay on his 1884 expedition to Tibet[4] to gather information on the Tibetans, Russians and Chinese.

He named his house "Lhasa Villa" and played host to many notable guests including Sir Charles Alfred Bell and Ekai Kawaguchi.