Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t69.1

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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.