ABSTRACT
THE following account of the councils of Rajagriha and Vaisali, and of the spread of Buddhism in Kachmere, is taken from the eleventh volume of the Dulva, and is the only callonical version of these events to be met with in Tibetan works. Before giving an analysis of these passages, I must call attention to the difficulties which the text presents. These difficulties are so real that a learned Tibetan lama from the monastery of Snar-Thang, near Tachilunpo, has said of this volume that" this translation is not felicitous j it is full of obsolete expressions, is badly written, and in the latter part of the volume the correctors' minds appear tired and their other faculties worn out j and all this is a source of much incertitude."l The translators of this volume were the well-known Indian pundits Vidyakaraprabha 2 and Dharmagriprabha.
