An intrepid travel journalist and amateur photographer, Sunita Dwivedi set out to explore the Buddhist cultural legacy with the ardour of a self-guided researcher and a pilgrim. The result is this unique account of travels to the Buddhist sites of India. This multi-focal travelogue takes the tourist and the pilgrim from the better known sites of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to the interiors of Sikkim, Arunachal, the precarious heights of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, and even across the borders to Nepal-the entire 'Dhamayatra' of the Buddhist circuit.

Buddhist Heritage Sites of India offers an unforgettable train of awe-inspiring stupas, monasteries, paintings and sculptures, and peopled by intriguing and inspiring figures, even as it traces the complex and curious trajectories of an immense heritage.

Sunita Dwivedi is a photographer, traveller and a freelance journalist, having earlier worked for over fifteen years in several dailies including the Times of India, Hindustan Times, Pioneer, and Northern India Patrika. During the last five years she has travelled widely across Asia.