Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t9.5

v2.c15.s2.t9.5

Lü Cheng left numerous works. Apart from aesthetic monographs like *History of Western Fine Arts* (1922), *Introduction to Aesthetics* (1923), *Ideological Trend of Modern Aesthetics* (1931) and *Chromatology Outline* (1933), he also had many writings on Buddhism, including *Summary of Declaration* (1923), *Outline of Hetuvidya* (1926), *Original Theory of Tibetan Buddhism* (1933), *Summary of the Origin and Development of Chinese Buddhism* (1979), *Summary of the Origin and Development of Indian Buddhism* (1979) and *Explanation of Nyayapravewa* (1983). He also took part in revising *A New Catalogue of the Chinese Language Tripitaka* and the revised edition was published in 1980. In 1991, Qi Lu Press published the *Selected Works on Buddhism by Lü Cheng* (five volumes altogether). These works have introduced and discussed Indian Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism and the exchanges and relations between the two. Taking *Summary of the Origin and Development of Indian Buddhism* as an example, it only has more than 200 pages, but it draws the outline of the emergence, development and fall of Indian Buddhism.