Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t60.3

v2.c15.s2.t60.3

However, after a few months of stay in Santiniketan, he was sent to China in early 1949s as a Professor of Sanskrit and Hindi to teach Hindi and Pali in the Department of Oriental Languages of Beijing University. During the period of his three and half years of stay in China, he had learnt classical Chinese and Buddhist Chinese, and had acquired much proficiency in it. He returned back to India in 1952-53 and then joined Cheena Bhavan, Santiniketan as a research scholar for few months. Then, soon he received an appointment letter from the Odisha government to join the Revenshaw College, Cuttack as Lecturer in Sanskrit and Odia literature. However his interest in India-China classical studies continued to remain unabated and thereby edited and restored the Abhidharma Samuccaya text of Asanga, a Buddhist scholar from Peshawar (founder of Yogacharya School of Mahayana Buddhism) of 4^th century CE and Abhidharma Koshabhashya of Vasuabndhu, brother of Asanga, with the help of concerned Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese texts and commentary.