From 2003 to 2005 van Schaik worked on a project to catalogue TibetanTantric manuscripts in theStein Collection of the British Library, and from 2005 to 2008 he worked on a project to study thepalaeography of Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang, in an attempt to identify individual scribes.[5]
Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Approaches to Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004).ISBN0861713702
Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library, co-authored withJacob Dalton (Leiden: Brill, 2006).ISBN9789004154223[6]
Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim, coauthored withImre Galambos (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012).ISBN9783110225648[8]
Tibetan Zen: Discovering a Lost Tradition (Boston & London: Snow Lion, 2015).ISBN9781559394468[9]
The Spirit of Zen (Yale University Press, 2018),[10] winner of the 2019 Tianzhu Book Prize for Excellence in Chan Studies[11]
Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment Through the Ages (Boulder: Shambhala 2020)ISBN9781611808254[12]
Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings for this Life and Beyond, co-edited withMatthew Kapstein (Leiden: Brill, 2010).ISBN9789004182035[13]
He is also the translator of:
Dhongthog Rinpoche,The Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism: A History, Translated by Sam van Schaik (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, Inc., 2016).
Jagou, Fabienne (2010–2011).Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (in French).97–98:444–445.JSTOR43733250.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Jansen, Berthe (2012)."Review".Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.2:255–258.
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