Publisher's Synopsis
This work presents a survey of Indian Buddhism with detailed biographical notes. The main text constitutes a general survey of the development of Indian Buddhism, and studies by scholars past and present are mentioned in full detail in copious footnotes with due evaluations. This work can be regarded, so to speak, as a development with revisions, of the Buddhist portion of M. Winternitz's History of Indian Literature. Major studies before and after Winternitz's work are exhaustively mentioned.
