Underscoring the unique and multifaceted interactions between ancient India and ancient China, ‘India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy’ collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956). The volume’s essays provide a wide-ranging and thorough investigation of both Sino-Indian Buddhism and cultural relations between the two ancient nations, and are accompanied by a variety of Bagchi’s short articles, English translations of a number of his Bengali essays, and contemporary articles analyzing his contribution to the wider field of Sino-Indian study.
Table of Content
Compilers’ Note; Introduction (English and Chinese); Part One: 1. Ancient Chinese Names of India; 2. The Beginnings of Buddhism in China; 3. Indian Influence on Chinese Thought; 4. A Note on the Avadānasataka and its Chinese Translation; 5. Bodhisattva-sīla of Subhākarasimha; 6. A Fragment of the Kāsyapa Samhitā in Chinese; 7. The Chinese Mysticism; 8. Some Early Buddhist Missionaries of Persia in China; 9. Some Letters of Hiuan-Tsang and his Indian Friends; 10. New Lights on the Chinese Inscriptions of Bodhgayā; 11. A Buddhist Monk of Nālandā Amongst the Western Turks; 12. Political Relations between Bengal and China in the Pathan Period; 13. Chinese Coins from Tanjore; 14. Report on a New Hoard of Chinese Coins; 15. Ki-pin and Kashmir; 16. Sino-Indian Relations – The Period of the United Empires (618–1100 A.D.); Part Two: Short Articles; Sino-Indian Spheres of Influences; Kothan as the Cultural Outpost of India; Indian Sciences in the Far East; The Visva-Bharati Cheena Bhavana; Part Three: Translations from Bengali; Indian Civilization in China; Influence of Indian Music in the Far East; Indian Hindu Culture and Religion in China; Appendix; In Memoriam – Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956) by Suniti Kumar Chatterji; Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: A Model in the Beginnings of Indo-Sinic Buddhist Philology by Akira Yuyama; Index
About the author
Bangwei Wang is a professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Research Centre of Eastern Literature and the Centre for India Studies, Peking University.
Tansen Sen is an associate professor of Asian history and religions at Baruch College, City University of New York, and is currently also a visiting senior research fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
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