These volumes are the research articles and general surveys of Prof.Lokesh Chandra.Collected from several obscure and inaccessible publications,it is a collection of writings that emerge from a broad spectrum of quests in Sanskrit and Iranian,Greek and Latin,Celtic and Slavic,Sino-Japanese and Tibetan,Thai and Indonesian history,Art and Linguistics,Tantras and Buddhism.
This Volume Studies of Tantra and Buddhim, art and archaelogy, language and Literature of the India's History.
Cultural Horizons of India, Lokesh Chandra, 1990, Hardcover 8"x 12", International Academy of Indian Culture, 343 pages, $45.00
Prof. Lokesh Chandra is a renowned scholar of Tibetan, Mongolian and Sino-Japanese Buddhism. He has to his credit over 600 works and text editions. Among them are classics like his Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary, Materials for a History of Tibetan Literature, Buddhist Iconography of Tibet, and the Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography in 15 volumes. Prof. Lokesh Chandra was nominated by the President of the Republic of India to the Parliament in 1974-80 and again in 1980-86. He has been a Vice-President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research. Presently he is Director, International Academy of Indian Culture.
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