The song of the queen of spring or the history of Tibet, by Fifth Dalai Lama of Tibet

Zahiruddin Ahmad was born in Calcutta, India, and educated in Calcutta, London and Oxford universities. From 1969 to 1995, he taught at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. In 1988-89, he was Visiting Professor at the seminar fur Sprach- and kulturwissenschaft Zentralasiens (department of central Asian Studies) at Bonn University, Germany. He is the author of (1) Sino-Tibetan relations in the seventeenth century (Rome, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1970. serie Orientale Roma, 40), (2) A History of Tibet by nag-dban Blo-bzan rGya-mTSHo, Fifth salai lama of Tibet, translated from Tibetan, Indian University, research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Bloomington, Indiana, 1995. Indiana university Oriental Series, 7) and (3) sans-rGyas-mTSHO, Life of the fifth Dalai Lama, Vol. IV, Part I, translated from Tibetan (New Delhi, International Academy of Indian Culture & Aditya Prakashan, 1999. Satapitaka Series, 392).