Articles on Indian Monks China
Indian Literature Abroad
By Prabhat Kumar Mukherji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1926
Indian Literature Abroad details the transmission of Indian Buddhist texts to China through key figures and translations. In 520 AD, Bodhidharma, the 28th Buddhist patriarch, arrived in Canton, establishing the Contemplative school without leaving written…
Indian Literature Abroad (In China) II
By Prabhat Kumar Mukherji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
Prabhāt Kumar Mukherji continues his survey of how Indian literature was received in China. Focusing on translations of Buddhist and secular texts during the Tang and Song dynasties, the article lists works known to have been rendered into Chinese and names…
Indian Literature Abroad
By Prabhat Kumar Mukherji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
How did Indian literature reach China? The article retells the story preserved in Chinese annals that Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han dreamt of a golden man flying over his palace. In 62 CE he sent envoys to the West to inquire about the Buddha. Two Indian…