国际著名藏学家，美国哈佛大学终身教授、南亚系前主任、内亚与阿尔泰系研究会主席，荷兰皇家艺术和科学院外籍院士、美国麦克阿瑟天才奖和美国古根汉姆奖获得者，和简·史密斯先生一起创建了藏文文献资源中心数据库（TBRC）。研究领域为藏学、印藏佛教哲学、藏传佛教思想史、汉藏、蒙藏关系史等。自 2009 年首次到访四川大学以来，长期支持我校藏学研究的发展。2011年受聘为四川大学高端外籍教师，多年来在我校开设了高级古典藏文文献研读《于阗教法史》《日光王统记》《贤者喜宴》等多门课程以及高端珠峰藏学系列学术讲座数十场；担任《藏学学刊》编辑委员会委员，协助组建了由国际一流藏学家组成的编辑委员会。和我校合作培养了十余名青年学者和博士研究生。

Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies with the Department of South Asian Studies and with the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University. He chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies of Harvard University. Professor van der Kuijp worked at the Nepal Research Center in Kathmandu, Nepal, at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, and at the University of Washington, Seattle, before joining the Harvard Faculty in July 1995. His research focuses primarily on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, and Tibetan-Mongol and Tibetan-Chinese relations. His writings can be gleaned at academia.edu. Professor van der Kuijp received his M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, and his PhD from Hamburg University, Germany. In 1993, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2018, he was selected as a new foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prof. van der Kuijp gives teaching on advanced Tibetan reading and lectures regularly every year in CTS.