Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t20.7

v2.c15.s2.t20.7

As for China-India cultural exchange, Xu Fancheng was reputed for his translations of works of Indian religions and philosophies, he was the first Chinese scholar who systematically introduced the Upanishads into China. While teaching at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, he made use of its rich collection of books to select 50 out of more than 100 texts of the Upanishads, which he thought to be the most influential and typical, and successively translated them into classical Chinese so as to preserve the original language’s simplicity and elegance, and a poetic style was used to reflect the lyric and rhythmic characteristics of the original texts. He also adopted