About the Author

David Snellgrove (b. 1920) is recognised as one of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism, and is the author of many seminal works on or around the subject, including the following - all published by Orchid Press and available from Kodansha Europe:- The Nine Ways of Bon: Excerpts from gZi-brjid (GBP27); The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh (GBP30); Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan successors (GBP30); Asian Commitment: Travels and Studies in the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia (GBP30); Khmer Civilization and Angkor (GBP12.99); Angkor, Before and After : A Cultural History of the Khmers (GBP40); Religion as History, Religion as Myth (GBP11.99); A Cultural History of Tibet (GBP24, with Hugh Richardson