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 (), which has a preface by the Dalai Lama, and Nagarjuna's Verses (). A facsimile edition of the Lotus Sutra made available in print two Cambridge palm leaf manuscripts, Add. 1682 and Add. 1683, dating from approximately one thousand years ago.
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.
In 2022 he was included as one of the 200 most notable people in the 200-year history of the University of Wales, Lampeter.