Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t10.53

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In early 20^th century, China launched a campaign to study and research into Indian philosophy and many universities offered a course on Indian philosophy. In 1916, the Philosophy Department of Peking University ran the course on Indian philosophy and Xu Jishang taught it. From 1917 to 1924, Liang Shuming taught Indian philosophy at Peking University. In 1922, Tang Yongtong returned from the United States and taught history of Indian philosophy and Chinese Buddhist history at Southeast University in Nanjing, Nankai University in Tianjin and Peking University. In 1946, Wuhan University offered a course on Indian philosophical history, and Jin Kemu and Shi Junxian taught the course in succession. In 1948, Jin Kemu taught Indian philosophical history at Peking University. When Tang Yongtong served as vice president of Peking University, he continued to offer the course on Indian philosophy to postgraduate students. The above universities ran the courses on Indian philosophy which encompassed Indian Buddhist philosophy and the philosophy of six Hindu sects, Jainism and Lokayata of Atheism.