Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t22: Yu Yu
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t22
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Yu Yu
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Yu Yu (1909-July 28, 1989) was a Chinese scholar of Indian philosophy. He was originally named De Yuan, styled Zhu Yuan, and assumed Bei Shan. His family origin was Shanyin, Zhejiang Province, but he was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province. He used to be a researcher of the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, part-time professor of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, part-time professor of the Department of Philosophy and the Department of History of Xiamen University. Yu Yu graduated from Dunpin Primary School and Tongwen Middle School, Xiamen. In 1928, he was admitted to the Chinese Inner Studies Institute, Nanjing and studied Vijnaptimatrata Hetu-vidya under Ouyang Jingwu. In 1930, he graduated from the college preparatory department of the Great China University, Shanghai. In 1934, he graduated from the Department of Psychology of the School of Education, the Great China University and later stayed at the school as a teaching assistant of logics. In the next year, he went to Nanjing and worked as a professor of editorship of the Nanjing Education Promotion Office. In 1938, when the Japanese army invaded China and Xiamen was occupied, he went to Chongqing and continued to work with Nanjing Supervisory Institute. Since 1941, he started to teach logics as an associate professor in Guizhou University. As of 1943, he served as an Associated Professor, and Professor successively of the Department of Philosophy of Xiamen University. In 1956, he was transferred to Beijing to write entries related to ancient Chinese treatises in ‘*Encyclopedia of Buddhism in Sri Lanka*’ and held a concurrent post as professor of the Buddhist Academy of China. In 1976, he worked as an Editor of the editorial committee of the ‘*Chinese Buddhism*’. In 1979, he was appointed as a part-time researcher of the Institute of Literature of CASS. In 1982, he was transferred to the Institute of Philosophy of CASS. He died of illness in Xiamen on July 28, 1989.
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He devoted his entire life to studying tsema. His major works include *Tsema* (1936), *Indian Logics* (1939), *Chinese Logic* (1947) and *Contribution of Xuanzang to Hetu-vidya* (1981). His treatises *Dharmakirti’s Contribution to the History of Indian Logic* (*Philosophical Researches*, Edition 2, 1989) gives a detailed discussion on the theory of tsema and has been strongly echoed by the academic community.
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(*Qiao Anquan*)