Since 1997, Blezer works as postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. His research covers Tibetan and also Indian history of ideas, notably Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Bön. He completed three postdoc research projects in this field. In 2000, Blezer organized the ninth seminar of the IATS, at the IIAS, in Leiden, with ca. 300 participants and 215 papers. In 2002 he published the proceedings of the Leiden seminar, in ten volumes, with Brill Academic Publishers. From 2005 to 2010, as principal investigator, Blezer led a Vidi research programme on a Tibetan minority Religion called Bön: The Three Pillars of Bön: Doctrine, 'Location' and Founder. The research programme was jointly funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek and Leiden University. The programme has as short public summary: Around 2010, Blezer prepares two monographs and one volume of conference proceedings on the origins of the Bön minority religion in Tibet. He also edits two volumes with comparative case studies on the wider topic of the emergence of new religious traditions, particularly in subdominant positions. The volumes broadly engage culture comparison and include contributions from an international group of specialists on different regions of the Far and Middle East. One of these volumes draws special attention to the ubiquitous phenomenon of nativist responses to the rise of Buddhism; this volume he edits together with Mark Teeuwen. Blezer is co-founder and editor of Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.
Affiliation
From 1993 to 1997 Blezer was affiliated to the Center for Non-Western Studies at Leiden University; from 1997 to 2001 to the IIAS in Leiden; and from 2002 to 2008 again to the CNWS. Since 2008 he works for the LIAS, where since 2010 he teaches Buddhist studies.
Books
Blezer, Henk Kar gling Zhi khro: A Tantric Buddhist Concept, Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Vol.56,
Blezer, Henk Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the International Association for Tibetan Studies , editor of three volumes of general proceedings, Tibetan Studies I, II & III, and general editor of seven volumes of panel proceedings of the IATS:
Blezer, Henk "Karma Gling pa: Treasure Finder, Creative Editor ", in East and West, vol.52, nos.1–4, pp. 311–45, IsIAO: Rome,
Blezer, Henk "Heaven my Blanket, Earth my Pillow: Wherever Rin po che Lays his Head down to Rest is the Original Place of Bon", in Acta Orientalia, Vol.68, pp. 75–112, Hermes: Oslo,
Blezer, Henk , in Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, Vol.15, pp. 421–79, Paris.
Blezer, Henk "The Silver Castle Revisited: A Few Notes", in Acta Orientalia, Vol.70, pp. 217–23, Novus: Oslo,
