Indian Buddhism: A Survey with Bibliographical Notes

This work presents a survey of Indian Buddhism with detailed bibliographical notes.  basing itself on recent studies, it is intended to introduce studies in various aspects of Indian Buddhism carried on by Japanese scholars as well as Western and Asian, especially India, scholars.  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’ History of Indian Literature.  Major studies before and after Winternitz; work are exhaustively mentioned.  As a reference work also this book is extreme help to scholars and students alike.  The work has been edited by Prof. Ramesh Mathur.