CONTENTS: 1. Publishers' Note, 2. Acknowledgement, 3. Preamble, 4. Main Part, i. Tibet, ii. Thonmi Sambhota: * Prologue, * Introduction, * Birth, *Birth place and Family name, *Birth date Variations, *Selection of Thonmi and his visit to India, * Study in India, * Variation of name of Thonmi's Teacher, * Return tol Tibet, * Devising Tibetan Script, * Cause of adding six new letters, * Composition olf Grammatical Texts, * Celebration by the Emperor on devising Scripts, * Origin of Tibetan Scripts, * Derivation and Lean words, * Scriptures translated by Thonmi Sambhota, * Translation of Buddhist Sanskrit Texts, * Death, * Blood lineage of Thonmi Sambhota, * Significance of Tibetan Language, * Role of Tibetan Translation of Buddhist Scriptures and Treatises, * Editions of Kagyur and Tengyur, * Contents of Kagyur and Tengyur, * Period of translating Sanskrit Buddhist Texts, * Code of Translation, * Mode of Translation, * Tradition of Translation, * Methodololgy, * Need and Scope, iii. Conclusion, 4. Appendix: * Tibetan Alphabets, Cases, Particles etc., * Tibetan part of Sumcupa, * English Translation of Sumcupa, * Tibetan Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, * Biography of Yanchen Drubpay Dorje, 5. Bibliography. 126pp.,