David Jackson
David P. Jackson made many important contributions to the field of Tibetan studies and Tibetan art before he passed away in 2025. He received his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Washington and studied and translated for many years in Seattle for the polymath Tibetan scholar Dezhung Rinpoche. Until 2007, he was a professor of Tibetan Studies at Hamburg University in Germany, and after that was a curator for the Rubin Museum of Art, New York. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Tibetan art, literature, and history, including A Saint in Seattle (2003), Tibetan Thangka Painting (1984), The Mollas of Mustang (1984), A History of Tibetan Painting (1996), Enlightenment by a Single Means (1994), and the “Masterworks of Tibetan Painting” series (2009–2016), written for the Rubin Museum. He also translated A Concise History of the Glorious Sakyapa School (2022).
Affiliations & relations
- Rubin Museum · workplace affiliation
