Contents: 1. Inaugural address at the conference on Professor Giuseppe Tucci/Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. 2. Giuseppe Tucci: a centenary obit/B.N. Mukherjee. 3. Professor Giuseppe Tucci: the man/Ram Singh Tomar. 4. Tagore and Tucci/Ujjal Kumar Majumdar. 5. Giuseppe Tucci: as aesthete/Kalpika Mukherjee. 6. Professor Tucci: an orientalist/Biswanath Banerjee. 7. A tribute to Giuseppe Tucci/C.S. Prasad. 8. Giuseppe Tucci and Tibetan Buddhism/Pranabananda Jash. 9. Professor Tucci and his school of Italian Sanskritists/Indrani Das. 10. Tucci’s scientific expeditions to Nepal and the bon religion/Arpita Chatterjee. 11. Giuseppe Tucci: his realm of archaeological adventure and discovery in trans-Himalaya/Subrata Chakrabarti. 12. A study on the Mahayanavimsika of Acarya Nagarjuna/Narendra Kumar Dash. 13. Reflections on Professor G. Tucci’s remarks on Madhyanta Vibhagatika and Abhisamayalamkara/Rita Gupta. 14. Chinese and Tibetan materials for Indological studies (as explored by Professor Giuseppe Tucci)/Suniti Kumar Pathak. 15. Lo-Che Rin-Chen-Bzan-Po as a great translator/Bimalendra Kumar. 16. Food and drink in Pali canon/Madhusudan Mallik. 17. Stupa in early Buddhist religion and art/Ananda Chandra Sahoo. 18. Right to die: Euthanasia in Greeco-Roman and Indian tradition/Sabujkoli Sen Mitra. 19. Relevance of Buddhism and other religions in modern society/G.C. Nayak. Index.

"The present volume ‘Perspective of Buddhist Studies’ is dedicated to Professor Giuseppe Tucci, an outstanding scholar of oriental studies. There are nineteen research papers in this volume which covers almost all branches of the area of studies of Professor Tucci. Most of the papers were presented in the National Seminar organised on the occasion of the birth centenary of the great scholar." (jacket)