Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t25.6

v2.c15.s2.t25.6

In the same year, he wrote ‘*A Preliminary Probe into the Concept of “Being” in Sanskrit*’. In 1947, he published is article ‘*Fundamental Problems of Sanskrit Grammatical Theories*’ on ‘*Shun Pao Literature and History Weekly*’. Since then, he began to focus on translating and studying ancient Indian literature. ‘*Meghadūta*’ (1956) was translated from Sanskrit by him who has introduced the greatest achievement of classical Sanskrit lyric poetry to Chinese readers. In 1982, his translation work ‘*Bhartṛhari Śatakatraya*’ was published. It is the most popular Sanskrit collection of minor poems in India and shows the life and emotion of an ordinary man of letters and thus gives a glimpse of the life and thoughts of Indian common people. He also translated the ‘*Collection of Ancient Indian Poems*’ (1984) from Sanskrit and Pali, including vedic poems, epics, aphorism poems and lyric