Prof. LOKESH CHANDRA (*1927) is a renowned scholar of Tibetan, Mongolian and Sino-Japenese Buddhism. He has to his credit over 400 works and text editions. Among them are classics like his Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary, Materials for History of Tibetan Literature, Buddhist Iconography of Tibet, and the Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography in about 20 Volumes. He has been a Vice-President of the Indian council for Cultural Relations, and Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research, and is presently Director, International Academy of Indian Culture.

The Sanskrit-Tibetan Dictionary is the first lexicographical work to provide the Tibetan equivalents or correspondences of Buddhist Sanskrit words, technical terms, and phrases. It is the reverse of the 19 volumes of the Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary. It has 70,000 vocabulary entries in densely printed 800 three-column pages. It includes words and compounds from sutras (like the Kasyapa-parivarta, Samadhiraja, Suvarna-prabhasa, Lankavatara), from Avatamsaka texts (like the Dasabhumika, Bhadracari, Bhadrakalpika), from the Prajnaparamita treatise (like Abhisamayalankara, Ratnagunasancayagatha), from Vinaya discipline (Pravrajya-, Kathinavastu), from laudatory hymns (like Namasangiti, Sragdharastotra), from Tantras (like Hevaraja, Kalacakra), from lexicons (Mahavyutpatti, Amarakosa), terms of poetics from the Kavyadarsa, from the drama Nagananda, from kavyas (like Meghaduta, Buddhacarita, Avadanakalpalata of Ksemendra), from manuals of logic (Nyayabindu, Nyayapravesa, Hetutattvopadesa), technical terms of medicine from the Astangahrdayasamhita, and the names of Buddhist deities in various Tibetan and Mongolian xylographic albums. It covers the immense literary, philosophical, cosmological, religious, poetic, dramatic, logical and medical terminology of the Buddhist evolution over thirteen centuries in Tibetan, Mongolia, Kalmykia and Buryatia. The entire gamut of Buddhist thought and practice, art and meditation, scholastic and literary development are covered by this Dictionary in a comprehensive manner. It is a work that should be on the desk of every scholar of Buddhism. A Sine qua non for Buddhology in all its incarnations. [Aditya Prakashan]