Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t69: Biswadev Mukherjee
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t69
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Biswadev Mukherjee
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Professor Biswadev Mukherjee, an eminent scholar of Chinese Buddhism, was born in Kolkata on April 28, 1929. He obtained his MA degree from Calcutta University in the year 1952 in ancient Indian history and culture. Later on, in 1955 and 1956, he obtained certificate and diploma in Chinese from Visva-Bharti University. He was a brilliant student of Chinese classical texts under Prof. Tan Yun-shan and Prof. Venkatraman. He also met Zhou Enlai when he visited Cheena Bhavana in 1957. He obtained his D.Phil degree from George August University (Gottingen, West Germany) in the year 1966 in Indology. Besides Bengali, Prof Mukherjee was a fluent speaker in Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Japanese, German and Hindi. He obtained the scholarship of ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ from West Germany for further research in Buddhism under the guidance of Dr. E. Waleschmist. He was an associate professor in the China Culture University Taipei, Taiwan from 1981 to 1983. Later on, Prof. Mukherjee was engaged in teaching and research in Cheena Bhavana, Visva-Bharati till his retirement in 1992.
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Prof. Mukherjee is the author of the book ‘*Die Uberlieferung von Devadutta, dem Widersacher des Buddha, in den Kanonischen Schriften*’, published by Kitzinger, Munchen, West Germany in 1966.
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Prof. Mukherjee’s other major works include:
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“The schismatic matters and the early Buddhist Literature’: This work was published in the Journal of Research, Visva-Bharati Vol. 1 , Part 1, in 1976-77.
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‘The Middle way’: This paper was presented in the Conference on ‘Madhyamika Dialect as the Philosophy of Nagarjuna’ and published by the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies from Sarnath in 1977.
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‘The day of Buddha’s Birth and Conception’: This article was published in the Indian historical quarterly in 1957.
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The Nalagiri Episode in an Ajanta Fresco’: This work was published in Dr Siddhesvara Bhattacharya Felicitation volume in 1988.
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(*Avijit Bannerjee*)