Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t24.9

v2.c15.s2.t24.9

Since 1982, he began to interpret Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka, a Tocharian A scripture unearthed in Yanqi, Xinjiang in 1975 and had written a dozen of articles on this topic. He published them in major periodicals in both China and abroad which caught the attention of the world of linguistic. In 1993, Taiwan Xinwenfeng Publishing Company published his monograph titled *Introduction to Researches on Tocharian language* that has become a detailed and reliable guide to both Chinese and foreign scholars related to the subject. In 1998, he completed the translation of Tocharian A *Maitrisimit*. In the same year, he collaborated with a German Tocharian expert Werner Winter and a French Tocharian expert G J (Georges-Jean Pinault) to publish *Fragments of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka of the Xinjiang Museum, China*.