Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s5.t15.3

v1.c7.s5.t15.3

In view of time, *History of Indian Buddhism* was from the early 5^th century BCE to 12^th century CE. It has provided much rare and precious information related to history of Indian Buddhism to common people while other information is short of conditions of characters, doctrines, groups, temples, almsgivers and especially enemies in the later period of Indian Buddhism. Therefore, Tibetan History of Indian Buddhism was translated into several foreign languages in 19^th century CE popularly and there have been Russian, German, Japanese and English versions successively.