Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India

Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India

About The Book:

Born in A.D. 1575, Lama Taranatha wrote this book in 1608. V. Vasil'ev of St. Petersburg translated it from Tibetan into Russian in April 1869 followed by the German translation of the text by Schiefner also published in St. Peterburg in October of the same Year. In view of the profound importance of the work for understanding Indian history in general and of the history of Buddhism in particular. modern scholars have extensively used specially Schiefner's German translation of the History for decades and for varied purposes.

About The Author:

Prof. Lama Chimpa, Head of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan, is acknowledged as one of the foremost Tibetologists in India. Dr Alaka Chattopadhyaya obtained her doctorate degree from Calcutta University with her highly acclaimed work based on Tibetan sources published under the title Atisa and Tibet. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya is an M.A., D. Litt of the Calcutta University Honorary D.Sc. of the Moscow Academy of Sciences, and Member of the German Academy of Sciences.