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. 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.