Mr. Dutt's work is a compendium where all information connected with the progress of Buddha's work is available in a well-ordered form. Such a work, the details of which have been laboriously collected from the Buddhist scriptures and arranged in such away as to enable one to see the large masses of details about Buddha's career in their logical and chronological relations, has certainly a great value not only for scholars but the ordinary readers interested in the history of the spread of Buddhism. This generally is the matter that forms the first part of this treatise.
The second part constitutes of the details delineating the four principal schools of Buddhism including resumes of their doctrines. The portions of the sketches bearing on the origin, development and activities of the schools have been drawn by Mr. Dutt for the first time from the existing material.


Early History of the Spread of Buddhism and the Buddhist Schools, Nalinaksha Dutt, Cosmo Publications, Hardcover, 313 pp., $30.00