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Synopsis The Buddhist literature is enormous and immeasurable and its literary Personalities are numerous. The mine of information couched there-in is astounding and fervent. The present book Dictionary of Buddhist Literature and Literary Personalities'claims in a sense an after piece to Prof. Dr. Krishna Murthy's research on diverse aspects of Buddhism. The splendid book remains an outcome of the result after a long spell of time, however, without laying any claim to its absolute completeness in view of the enormity of the subject. Prof. Krishna Murthy a dedicated scholar of Buddhism has prepared this Dictionary bringing the entire Buddhist literature and its literary Personalities well with in the compass of his study. The project is exhaustive, aspiring and considerable. Such a widely covered range of Buddhism is intended to divulge Kernal of Buddhist Literature and its literary personalities in its totality. In this direction, an endeavour has been for the first time on such a large and ambitious scale and the author with his indefatigable research and immaculate scholarship brings out this vast study verily in two major parts. The Part I embodies the entire Buddhist literature known to the Buddhist world. In Part II servant and galactic literary personalities who accredited the world of Buddhism are lavishly dealt with. Indubitably, this tome remains a standard and an authentic work on Buddhism for a long time to come. No student of Buddhist religion, philosophy, inconography and art can afford to miss this gainful work.