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Editor's Foreword This is substantially an electronic edition of Bimala Churn Law's book on the Geography of Early Buddhism as it was published in 1932, with the omission of the Appendix on the Cetiya. I am very grateful to Ven. Bangladeshi Dčpananda, who prepared the initial version from a OCR-ed document, which I then further checked myself. For anyone interested in the subject the book is a mine of information, even if some of it is dated by now, especially as it was written during the period of the British Raj in India, and place names, borders, and even countries have changed since then. I have updated the book in only a few small ways: a couple of gross corrections and a breaking up of paragraphs to make it more readable and to separate the references. To do much more would really require a total rewrite, and so I present it as it is, as a still valauble source of reference information for the student. In regard to the subject of the book I have made numerous maps which are published elsewhere on this website, and have also given several talks which have been made into videos, links to all these are on the Maps page of the website, see: http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Maps/MP-index.htm Ānandajoti Bhikkhu May, 2014