Indian Pandits In The Land Of Snow

About the Book:-This rare work has compiled with the help of a series of small essays written by the intrepid traveller and spy for the British Indian Survey of India Sarat Chandra Das. The essays area bench of eclectic offerings and they deal with various aspects of the origin and progress of the faith in Tibet. He experienced with his minute observation about the little known works of Indians and Aryans in the countries beyond the Himalayas during his sojourn in Tibet and he has little doubt the inquiring public will find much in them to think and ponder on. It is an undoubted fact that Buddhism found its way into Central and Eastern Asia, from Aryavarta (India); ages have elapsed since then; the almost insurmountable physical barriers which separated India and Central Asia, and want of intercourse and sympathy between these strange peoples and the Indians tended, in course of time, to obliterate the traces of the onward march of Buddhism from this country. There are short biographical notes on Kumara Jiva, Fahian, Bodhi Dharma, Hieun-Tsdang, Dipankara, Atisa etc. short notes on the origin of the Mahayana school, earliest notices of China and India in China, translation of sacred works into Chinese etc. The book was edited by the author’s brother Nobin Chandra Das. This book is a reprint of the 1893 edition. About the Author:-Sarat Chandra Dash was an Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture most noted for his two journeys to Tibet in 1879 and in 1881–1882. He was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling in 1874. In 1878, a Tibetan teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso arranged a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery at Tashilhunpo. In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling for the first of two journeys to Tibet. They remained in Tibet for six months, returning to Darjeeling with a large collection of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts which would become the basis for his later scholarship