Craig Jamieson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Craig Jamieson

British academic

Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1953

Place of Birth: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Profession: scientist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Craig Jamieson is Keeper of Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge. Before Cambridge he taught Buddhism in the Study of Religion Department at the University of Leicester. His best-known works are Perfection of Wisdom (ISBN 0-670-88934-2), which has a preface by the Dalai Lama, and Nagarjuna's Verses (ISBN 81-246-0175-5).
A facsimile edition of the Lotus Sutra made available in print two Cambridge palm leaf manuscripts from around one thousand years ago, Add.
1682 and Add.
1683.A major exhibition took place in 2014 entitled Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond.
A short video of the Perfection of Wisdom manuscript came out in 2017.