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Fudan University; University of Königsberg.
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Xu Fancheng
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He translated 50 of the Upanishads into classical Chinese. He also translated Nietzsche"s Also sprach Zarathustra, Kalidasa"s lyric poem Meghaduuta (Cloud Messenger), and several of Sri Aurobindo"s works into Chinese. He was familiar with Greek, Latin, English, French, as well as Sanskrit and German.
A 16-volume of his complete works was published in 2006.
From 1927 to 1929, he studied History at Zhongshan University and then Western Literature in Fudan University. He studied Fine Art and Philosophy at the University of Königsberg, Germany from 1929 to 1932.
From 1945 to 1978, he studied and taught in India, thus escaping the Cultural Revolution. He lived in Pondicherry from 1951 to 1978 in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (where he was an inmate).
After returning to China, he worked as a researcher in the Research Institute of World Religions of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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China