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|bio=Walter Liebenthal (12 June 1886 – 15 November 1982), was a German philosopher and sinologist who specialized in Chinese Buddhism. He translated many philosophical works from Pali, Sanskrit and specially from Chinese into German. Based upon his extensive research in Indian Buddhism and Chinese religion, one of his main conclusions was that early Chinese Buddhism through Ch'an (Zen-) was not a Chinese version of Indian Buddhism, but rather, that it developed from Taoism, a Chinese religion. Indian concepts are present, but at the core it represents a Chinese perspective. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Liebenthal Source | |bio=Walter Liebenthal (12 June 1886 – 15 November 1982), was a German philosopher and sinologist who specialized in Chinese Buddhism. He translated many philosophical works from Pali, Sanskrit and specially from Chinese into German. Based upon his extensive research in Indian Buddhism and Chinese religion, one of his main conclusions was that early Chinese Buddhism through Ch'an (Zen-) was not a Chinese version of Indian Buddhism, but rather, that it developed from Taoism, a Chinese religion. Indian concepts are present, but at the core it represents a Chinese perspective. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Liebenthal Source Accessed March 31, 2020]) | ||
|publications="Satkarya in der Darstellung seiner buddhistischen Gegner". 8 vo. 151 pp Kohlhammer, Stuttgart-Berlin 1934. | |publications="Satkarya in der Darstellung seiner buddhistischen Gegner". 8 vo. 151 pp Kohlhammer, Stuttgart-Berlin 1934. | ||
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| PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works Category:Translators Category:Professors |
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| MainNamePhon | Walter Liebenthal |
| bio | Walter Liebenthal (12 June 1886 – 15 November 1982), was a German philosopher and sinologist who specialized in Chinese Buddhism. He translated many philosophical works from Pali, Sanskrit and specially from Chinese into German. Based upon his extensive research in Indian Buddhism and Chinese religion, one of his main conclusions was that early Chinese Buddhism through Ch'an (Zen-) was not a Chinese version of Indian Buddhism, but rather, that it developed from Taoism, a Chinese religion. Indian concepts are present, but at the core it represents a Chinese perspective. (Source Accessed March 31, 2020) |
| YearBirth | 1886/06/12 |
| YearDeath | 1982/11/15 |
| BornIn | Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) |
| affiliationsecondary | Sino-Indian Institute, Yenching University of Peking, China, research fellow, 1934–36;
Peking University, China, lecturer in Sanskrit and German, 1937; Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, senior research fellow 1952–54, visiting professor of Sino-Indian Studies 1955–59; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, visiting professor, 1959; Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1960; University of Tübingen, Germany, honorary professor, 1962 |
| StudentOf | Dr. Johannes Nobel · Max Walleser · Otto Strauss. |
| phduniversity | University of Breslau |
| education | Indological studies at the universities of Berlin, Marburg, Heidelberg, Halle and Breslau. |
| publications | "Satkarya in der Darstellung seiner buddhistischen Gegner". 8 vo. 151 pp Kohlhammer, Stuttgart-Berlin 1934.
"Sutra to the Lord of Healing" (Bhaishajya-grun Vaiduryaprabha Tathagata), 32 pp. Ed. by Chou Su-Chia and translated by Walter Liebenthal. Buddhist Scripture Series No.1, Society of Chinese Buddhists, Peiping 1936. “The Book of Chao”. Monumenta Serica, Series XIII 8 vo. 195 pp. Peking 1948. "Tao-sheng and His Time". Monumenta Nipponica, XI, XII, 34 pp, Tokyo 1955/6, Monograph No.17. Walter Liebenthal: A Biography of Chu Tao-Sheng, Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 11, No. 3 (Oct., 1955), pp. 284–316. The World Conception of Chu Tao-Sheng. Monumenta Nipponica, 8 vo. Nbrs.1 & 2, Tokyo 1956. "On World Interpretations". 8vo. 88 pp. Santiniketan 1956. (appeared serially in the Visvabharati Quarterly XX. 1, 3 & 4; XXI. 1 & 4 during 1954/6. "Chao Lun: The Treatises of Seng-Chao", 2nd Rev edition, 152 pp. Hong Kong University Press, sold by Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-643104-2. “Das Wu-men kuan: Zutritt nur durch die Wand / Wu-men Hui-k'ai“. 142 pp. Heidelberg: Lambert Schneider, 1977. |
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