Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t17.4

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With the coordination of Master Taixu and the support of the Department of Education, he set out to India to study in September 1940. He hadn’t arrived in India until February 1942 due to the war. During his stay here, he studied Pali, Sanskrit and English while teaching in Cheena Bhavan, Visva-Bharti and Mahabodhi Society. Meanwhile, he visited Buddhists and personages of other religions everywhere to popularise Chinese Buddhism and promote Chinese culture. He left India for Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) in 1943, where he was admitted to Vidyalankara to further study Pali as well as the Southern Buddhism classics such as *Abhidhammattha-sangaha* and *Visuddhimagga*. Invited by Tan Yunshan, the Dean of Cheena Bhavan of Visva-Bharati University, he returned to India to teach Buddhism in June 1946, where he finished the translation of *Abhidhammattha-sangaha*. He returned home from India in the spring of 1947. Invited by University of Ceylon, he returned to Ceylon to teach Chinese Buddhism History in 1951, during which he participated in the compiling work of *The Complete Book of Master Taixu*. He attended the 1st World Fellowship of Buddhists in Ceylon as a representative of Chinese Buddhists in May 1951.