February, 1908. | Annual Address. XXVil 
especially in the reign of Ralpacan in the 9th century, innumerable 
Indian Pandits and Tibetan Lamas were engaged on the transla- 
tion of Sanskrit books into Tibetan. The versions thus elaborate- 
rep»red were perpetuated in wooden blocks from which impres- 
sions could be taken at any moment. The majority of the works 
on logic so preserved in Tibet have been found to form part 
of the Hodgson Collection now deposited in the India Office as also 
of the vast Tibetan Collection brought down by the British Mission 
intricacies of that language, not so much for the purpose of 
elucidating the sacred writings of the Lamas of Tibet, as for the 
purpose of restoring to India, from Tibetan sourves, that rich har- 
vest of Sanskrit books, Buddhistic as well as non-Buddhistie, reli- 
gious, scientific, literary and philosophical, which are now known to 
and modern schools is concerned, a valuable addition to the litera- 
ture at our disposal; and it is interesting to observe that they 
throw a good deal of light on the antiquity of Indian Philosophy, 
which dates from a pre-Christian, and not improbabl m a 
pre-Buddhistic age. Philosophy was widely cultivated in India 
this theory, reliance has been placed upon numerous inscriptions, 
specially some from Southern India, such as the Kalobhabi 
