Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t19.3

v2.c15.s2.t19.3

Director of the centre. He compiled and published the ‘*Tibetan Tripitaka*’ and committed himself to revitalise Chinese Buddhism from the perspective of academic culture. He founded the ‘*Buddhist Culture*’ magazine in 1965 and started to serve as a consultant of the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies since 1967. He went to the United States to promote Buddhism at the invitation of Buddhist Association of the United States in 1975. In 1977, he established the Scholarship for Buddhist Culture in order to encourage young Buddhist monks and nuns to study further.