Tibetan Studies : Past and Present Book

Contents: Foreword. 1. Indo-Tibetan studies at Santiniketan : Past and prospects/Biswanath Banerjee. 2. A glimpse on the Tibetan language studies/Suniti Kumar Pathak. 3. Buddhism in Tibet: An overview/Pranabananda Jash. 4. Personal observations on Tibetan language and literature/Lama Chimpa. 5. Lepcha studies and some social values evaluated/Arpita Chatterjee. 6. A glimpse of the Tibetan lexicography/Kalpika Mukherjee. 7. Tibetan language in three decades (1960-1990)/Anandamayee Ghosh. 8. Contribution of Guru Padmasambhava on spread of Buddhism in Sikkim/Dechen D. Dorjee. 9. Role of Padmasambhava in Tibet/Bela Bhattacharya. 10. Mask: A significant trait of the Tibetan culture/Chittaranjan Patra. 11. Non-violence and nature awareness in the Chos kyi tsi gs su bcad pa (Dhammapada)/Malavika Bandyopadhyaya. 12. An analysis of the authentic authorship of the Tibetan Medical treatise "Cha lag bco brgyad" (12th Century A.D.) and a description of its historical background/Barbara Gerke. 13. Tibetan language and the Council in standardization/Jampel Kalden. 14. Prof. Tucci's work in the field of Buddhist logic/Heramba Chatterjee Shastri. 15. Hetutattvopadesa : A study/Narendra Kumar Dash. 16. Relation between Sanskrit and Tibetan/Biplab Kumar Mondal. 17. Buddhist system of education/Prakriti Chakraborty. 18. The ran-Bshin Gsum-la jug Pa'i Sgrub-Pa of Arya Nagarjuna : A critical study/Lalita Chakraborty. Index.

"The work "Tibetan Studies: Past and Present" is a collection of eighteen research papers contributed by famous Indo-Tibetologists of present age. This volume include articles on Literature, Philosophy, Language, Medicine and history of Tibetan Studies in India. This volume is bound to be an asset for those who are interested in this field." (jacket)