Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t58: Sujit Kumar Mukherji
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t58
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Sujit Kumar Mukherji
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Professor Sujit Kumar Mukherji (March 13, 1904-1978), a renowned scholar of Chinese Studies, was born in 1904. He came to Santiniketan in 1917 as a student. Later on, he learnt Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Chinese language. His main area of research was Buddhism and literature. He also joined Cheena Bhavana, Visva-Bharati as a professor.
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Prof. Mukherji prepared a critical edition of an unpublished Buddhist text ‘The Sardulakarnavadana’ from manuscripts preserved in the libraries of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Societe Asiatique in Paris. He made full use of the four ancient Chinese translations of the text as well as of the Tibetan translations of the preparation of the edition and in historical study. Prof. Mukherji’s other works included:
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\* ‘Santidever Bodhicaryavatara’: This book was translated into Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, English, German, Italian, French and some other languages. It was annotated and edited with an introduction and published by Visva-Bharati in 1947.
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\* ‘The Vajrasuci of Asvaghosa’: This was a Sanskrit text compared with the Chinese versions, edited with introduction, English translation and parallel passages and published by the Sino-Indian Cultural Society in 1950.
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‘Sardulakarnavadanam’: This was a Sanskrit text compared with its four Chinese and a Tibetan translations in different editions and edited critically with variant readings of Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese which was published by Visva-Bharati in 1954.
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*(Avijit Bannerjee)*
Linked texts (3)
- Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna — Sanskrit
- Vajrasūcī — Aśvaghoṣa, Sanskrit
- Bodhicaryāvatāra — Śāntideva, Sanskrit