Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.72

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From 1917 to 1923, Xu Dishan, who once studied Buddhist scriptures and Sanskrit in Yenching University, studied the history of religions, Indian philosophy and Sanskrit at the University of Oxford, Banaras Hindu University, etc. From 1927 to 1934, he was a teacher in Yenching University, and taught courses such as Indian philosophy and literature in Peking University and Tsinghua University. He mainly had three translations: *Folk Tales of Bengal* (1928), *A Digit of the Moon* (1935) and *The Descendance of the Sun* (1935), all of which are collections of Indian folktales. His *Indian Literature* was published in 1930, which comprehensively and systematically surveyed Indian literature from the Vedas to Tagore.