Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t49.2

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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.