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The present book embodies selective in depth research papers of Dr. Krishna Murthy diversifying various aspects of the subject, written with wonted scholarship and sensitivity. Dr. Krishna Murthy has admirably discussed in this book many intricate and fascinating topics of varied interests. He has brilliantly examined nerve topics like quintessence of Buddhism, the Buddhist pathway to perfection etc. The exhilarating topics like Buddhist ideologies transmuted in stupa, the cult of the bodily relics of the Buddha, the wheel symbolism, the Buddhist architecture exemplified in this book, reflect the indefatigable research of the author. The topics like Pan-Asiatic expansion of Buddhism in Burma, Tibetan and Chinese and Japanese Buddhist, art and architecture mark the culmination of the indepth study of the author. The chapter on the Buddhist Pali and Sanskrit and Tamil sources brings home the author's immaculate comprehension and logical presentation of Indian Buddhism in its total personality. This volume is the outcome of Dr. Krishna Murthy's three and a half dicades of research. This book is bound to be an authoritative, major indological tome for the lovers of Indology.