Chattopadhyaya, A.
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Alaka Chattopadhyaya
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Alaka Chattopadhyaya
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Dr. Mrs. Alaka Chattopadhyaya obtained her doctorate degree of the Calcutta University with her highly acclaimed work based on Tibetan sources published with the title Atisa and Tibet. By profession she was until recently the principal of the Vidyasagar College of Women, Calcutta. Her other published works include the translation (in Bengali) of the Caturasitisiddha-pravrtĭi—life of the 84 Siddhacaryas available hithertobefore only in its Tibetan version, besides many other Tibetan studies. She has extensively toured abroad, delivering lectures in USSR, China, Oxford, Cambridge, Budapast and other places. - From Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India (1990)