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 from 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 using specially Schiefner's German translation of the History for decades and this for varied purposes.
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Prof. Lama Chimpa, Head of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan, is acknowledged as one of the foremost Tibetologists in India.Dr. Mrs. Alaka Chattopadhyaya obtained her doctorate degree of the Calcutta University with her highly accalimed work based on Tibetan sources published with the title Atisa and Tibet.Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya is M.A., D. Litt of the Calcutta University Honorary D.Sc. of the Moscow Academy of Sciences, Member of the German Academy of Sciences.
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