BOELES, Jan Jetso. Leeuwarden 1909 — 2002. Dutch Businessman, Buddhist and South-East Asian Scholar. From 1935 until his death living in Thailand, except in 1940-45, when also studied South-East Asian archaeology at Leiden under N. J. Krom (also under Kuiper). For a while director of the Siam Society Research Centre. Fieldwork in Thailand (photographer). He kept contact with Kern Institute and visited his homeland every year. Honorary member of Siam Society 1960.

Publications: “The migration of the magic syllable Oṁ”, India Antiqua. Festschr. J. Ph. Vogel. Leiden 1947, 40-56; other articles mainly on South-East Asia.

– The Secret of Borobudur. 23+90 p. ill. Bangkok 1985.

Sources: Dutch Indology homepage with small photo.