A Guide to The Orchids of Sikkim

Buddhist missionary known in India as Guru Padma Sambhava, and in Tibet as Guru Rimpoche. In Bhutan the title of the spiritual head of the country, known to the outside world as Dharma Raja, The volume has been conceived as part of a larger whole which is designed to give some idea, not merely of the physical characteristics of the Indian empire, but of those subtler differences between East and West which are to be found in the thought and attitude towards life of its peoples. According to an ancient legend a request went forth from the famous University of Nalanda to the great Buddhist masters throughout India, from the mountains of Kashmir to the palm groves of Ceylon, that they should compete in composing a hymn in praise of Manjusri, the god of Wisdom.