Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t36: Ran Yun-Hua
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t36
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Ran Yun-Hua
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Ran Yun-hua (1924 - ) is a Chinese Canadian scholar. His family origin is Guangyuan, Sichuan Province. He is a Professor at the Department of Science of Religion of McMaster University, Canada.
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Ran Yun-hua graduated from Shaanxi Normal Specialized Postsecondary College. Later, he studied history in Sichuan University and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in 1948. He went to study in Visva-Bharati University, India in 1953 and studied Buddhism and history of Indian religions from Prabodh Chandra Bagchi and Tan Yun-shan et al. In 1964, he obtained a Religious Doctoral Degree of Visva-Bharati University and stayed at the university to teach. Later, he was invited to serve as the Dean of the Department of Science of Religion of McMaster University, and engaged in Buddhism and Chinese religious studies. He retired as an honourary professor of the university in 1988. He has successively worked as President of “Society for the Study of Chinese Religions”, member of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and the Buddhism Group of Association for Asian Studies. He also assumed important posts in the International Association of Buddhist Studies and International Religious Association. In 1989, he went to Taiwan and became a Professor of Faguang Buddhist Culture Research Institute and researcher of the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies. He focussed on
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A group photograph of Ran Yunhua with Ji Xianlin
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studying Buddhist history and philosophy, Chinese ideological history, and cultivated many specialists in Buddhism for Taiwan. His works include ‘*Zong Mi*’ (1988), ‘*From Indian Buddhism to Chinese Buddhism*’ (1995) and nearly 100 research papers that have been published on academic magazines in Europe, the United States of America, Japan and Taiwan. ‘*From Indian Buddhism to Chinese Buddhism*’ includes 14 academic papers and the subject of discussion is the transformation and development of Buddhism from India to China. He also has monographic studies in cultural comparison, commandment ceremony, religious literature, forming process of Zen and the inheritance and change of Indian Buddhism by Chinese eminent monks.
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(*Zhang Ran*)