translated from the Tibetan by Lobsang Norbu Tsonawa
"The biographies of the Indian Buddhist Pandits translated here are drawn from The Jewel Garland of Buddhist History (Tib. ཆོས་འབྱུང་ཟིན་བྲིས་ནོར་བུ་འཕྲེང་བ།) compiled by Tibetan masters" Tsonawa 1985 (preface)