Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal

“Mr. Hodgson’s illustrations of the literature of religion of the Buddhists form a wonderful combination of deepest philosophical speculations”, this is a quote from the language of Csoma De Koros, about this masterpiece of a work when no European had studied the literature of Buddhism with greater success.
Mr. Hodgson’s researches into religion are of that form which prevails in Nepal-the Buddhism as it manifested itself in that Alpine region and has done more than any other writer on this subject. Before his time, what was known of Buddhism was crude, vague and shadowy, derived from secondary and by no means reliable sources. It is he, who established the subject on a sound philosophical basis, This work is full of ideas entirely new regarding the language, literature and religion of Nepal, and his account of different schools of Buddhism has never been surpassed or equaled.
This first work, further teemed with value as bringing to light among other important discoveries the grand and therefore wholly unknown fact that in Nepal there existed numerous Buddhist works composed in sanskrit, the original language of Buddhism. The work is replete with most varied and instructive information. Much has been done since but no one can even now write on Buddhism with any accuracy who has not thoroughly studied Mr. Hodgson’s work.
The Publishers feel pleasure in issuing this masterpiece of literary genius and hope that it will fill the vacume in the availability of Sanskrit Buddhist Literature.