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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Hu Hsu/English/Biography of Hsu Hu .htm
Xu Fancheng
Chinese: 徐梵澄
Pondicherry in fact has played a prominent role in cultural
exchanges between India and China in modern times. This is due to
the influence of the Chinese scholar, who lived in Pondicherry for
27 years. His name was Xu Fancheng, also called the "Modern Xuanzang".
Xu Fancheng was born in Changsha, Hunan province, on 26th October
1909. As a child he studied classical Chinese. In 1929 he went to
Germany to study the History of Art at Heidelberg University. He
also practiced wood engraving there and became the first Chinese
artist of the new style wood engraving. He came back to China in
1932, and encouraged b
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Hu Hsu/English/On Hu Hsu .htm
In an
unending search for spirituality
Wars, famine,
state failure, revolutions, reform, economic boom. Most
people in the world cannot think of much else when it
comes to 20th-century China. To be honest, even most
Chinese cannot think beyond them. They cannot imagine
that a scholar from a society of constant upheavals
could find a place to immerse himself in his quest for
spirituality and life's meaning. But that is exactly
what Xu Fancheng (1903-2000), a leading researcher with
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), did in
India.
In ancient
times, Chinese scholars used to travel to India to study
Buddhism and to bring back Buddhist scr
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