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Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t49: Jiang Zhongxin

Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t49

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Jiang Zhongxin

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Jiang Zhongxin (February 15, 1942-October 7, 2002) was a Sanskrit scholar and researcher from Shanghai; he was a researcher at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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Between 1960 and 1965, Jiang Zhongxin studied under Ji Xianlin and Jin Kemu in the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature of Peking University and majored in Sanskrit and Pali. Between 1965 and 1978, he worked at the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 1978, he worked with the Institute of South Asian Studies co-founded by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University, and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He taught Sanskrit in the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature of Peking University between 1979 and 1982 and between 1984 and 1985. He also visited several universities abroad as a teacher and scholar, such as in Københavns Universitet in 1987, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University in 1988 and La section de langues et civilisations orientales, Université de Lausanne in 1994. Besides this, he was a guest researcher of the International Institute for Buddhist Studies and the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhist Studies, Soka University.

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'Mo nu fa lun', translated by Jiang Zhongxin

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He was associated in the compilation of '*Commentary on Great Tang Records on the Western Regions*' (1985). His translation of the Sanskrit work '*Manu Smrti*' (1986) systematically showcases the traditional ethical norm of Hinduism and represents an important basis for studying Indian history, society and religion. He was thus awarded given the Han Suyin-Vincent Ratnaswamy Sino-Indian Friendship Award. He deciphered and copied out the Sanskrit transcripts of '*Lotus Sutra*' and the transcripts of other Buddhism Canons stored in many places like the library of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, Lvshun Museum and China Tibetology Research Centre. One of the results of his work was '*The Sanskrit Transcripts of the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra Stored in the Library of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities: Latin Alphabet Transcription*' (1988), which was published by the China Social Sciences Press. This book has expanded the field of research in Sanskrit and has been valued by both Chinese and foreign Sanskrit academic community. His works of translated Sanskrit texts such as the '*Vikram and Betaal Stories*' was included in the '*Select Stories from Kathasaritsagar*' (2001). He published many academic dissertations, such as '*Fragments of Sanskrit Lotus Sutra preserved in the Lvshun Museum Collection*', *On Transformation of suffixing –am to –o and –u in the Transcripts of Lotus Sutra in Kashgar*', etc.

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(Ren Xiaoke)

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