Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t33: Wu Baihui
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t33
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Wu Baihui
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Wu Baihui (September 9, 1919 - ) is a Chinese Indologist and Buddhism researcher. He belongs to Huizhou, Guangdong Province, but was born in Hong Kong. He is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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As a child he was deeply influenced by his mother who was pietistic in Buddhism. He received western style education at a religious school, but he still studied in Putichang and Zhilian Zhengyuan hosted
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Wu Baihui
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by Hedong Lay Buddhist. In 1937, he met Master Tai Xu who came to Hong Kong for sermon and thus, had the opportunity to be recommended by him to study in India. In 1940, he went abroad via Myanmar along with Master Fa Fang, and over a year later, he arrived at Visva-Bharati founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
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During his stay at Visva-Bharati, he studied under Prabodha Chandra Bagchi, Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat, Shanti Bhiksu Sastri, Tan Yun-shan and other scholars, majoring in Indian philosophy, Indian Buddhism, Indian history, Sanskrit and so on, involving many classical philosophies of religion, including Buddhism and Hinduism. In 1946 and 1948 respectively, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree. In 1949, he applied for a Doctoral degree at University of Pune. When the People’s Republic of China was founded and the Korean War broke out, he actively assisted the Consulate General of China in Bombay to take charge of the school for overseas Chinese, and collect and translate Chinese and English propaganda materials. In 1952, he applied to the Embassy to return to China to work. After receiving approved, he went back to China and taught Hindi in Hindi teaching and research office at the Department of Eastern Languages, Peking University. In 1857, he was transferred to work as an editor in the Commercial Press. In 1978, he was transferred to work in the Institute of Philosophy Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 1983, he proposed to organise an oriental philosophy research office and became the director of the office. In 1984, he was given the title of Honorary Doctor of Literature and Supreme Honorary Professor of Visva-Bharati.
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He proposed to study Indian religious philosophy by drawing upon the experiences gained on key points. He traced the source of essential issues in Indian religious philosophy and analysed all kinds of viewpoints, including water origination
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Literary works of Wu Baihui
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theory, Maya theory, presence or absence theory, Mano theory and proanthropus theory in Vedas eulogistic poem. Thereby, he began his comparative analysis and included different religious philosophy thoughts like Vedas, Upanishad, Buddhist philosophy and Vedanta philosophy into an organic and comprehensive development history of Indian religious philosophy. His major academic results include his translation works ‘*Agamasastra*’ (1999) and ‘*Rigveda Divine Comedy Selection*’ (2010), monographs ‘*Indian Philosophy and Buddhism*’ (1994) and ‘*Indian Philosophy*’ (2000), and dissertations - ‘*Indian Ancient Dialectical Thinking*’, ‘*Logical Thought of Jainism, Indian Natural Philosophy, Upanishad and Its Materialism Philosophy, Indian Vedanta Philosophy, Primary Investigation of Indian Dhyana in Early Stage - Buddhist Thought of Upanishad, Brief Introduction of the Theoretical Essence of Yogacara and Madhyamika of Mahayana*’ and ‘*Maya-vada of Brahman and Buddhism*’.
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(Zhang Minyu)
Linked texts (2)
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- Upaniṣad — Sanskrit