Peter Khoroche is an independent scholar and translator as well as the author of monographs on the British artists Ivon Hitchens and Ben Nicholson. He lives in Suffolk.
"A delightful English rendering of a work hitherto available only
to a relative few. . . . Khoroche's appreciation for Haribhaṭṭa's
style seeps through the closing pages of the introduction, during
which he orients readers toward the types of scenes--sometimes
verdant, sometimes gruesome, but always extraordinarily
detailed--that they are about to encounter. In the chapters that
follow, Khoroche succeeds in transforming both the prose and verse
of Haribhaṭṭa's text into idiomatic yet elegant English."
-- "Reading Religion"
"Reanimates classical stories of the Buddha's past lives in vivid
poetry and prose. While virtues like generosity and the
Buddha-to-be's extraordinary embodiment of them remain the work's
focus, Khoroche observes that Haribhatta's descriptive powers give
this text an almost cinematic quality, coupling ethics with
artistry."
-- "Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly"
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