Biography of Dharmasvamin (Chag lo tsa-ba chos-rje-dpal)- A Tibetan Monk Pilgrim

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The Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna has great pleasure in offering to the learned public the biography of Chag lo-tsa-ba Chos-rje-dpal, (Dharmasvämin), a Tibetan monk pilgrim, who was in Bihar in 1234-6 A. D. and has described its condition in great detail. I may refer the reader to my Introduction (pp. i-xxxviii) for the great cultural and historical importance of the work. It is for the first time that an account about India, proceeding from the pen of a Tibetan pilgrim, is seeing the light of the day.

The Institute desires to express its indebtedness to Tri- pițakāchārya Rahula Sankrityayana, the indefatigable explorer and scholar, for the photo static copy of the MS. of the biography, lying in the monastery of sNar-than in theg Tsan province of central Tibet. It is grateful to Prof. G. Roerich, M. A., Ph. D., Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Institute of the Oriental Studies, Moscow, for having deciphered the Tibetan text from a single photostatic copy of the MS. and for having translated it into English. It is thankful to the Bihar Research Society, Patna, which is the custodian of the photostatic copies brought by Mahapandita Rahula Sankritya- yana, for having placed the photographs of the MS. at the disposal of the K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute in order to get them translated and published.