(1911-08-06)August 6, 1911 Linqing, Shandong, Qing dynasty China
Died
July 11, 2009(2009-07-11) (aged 97) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Occupation
linguist, paleographer, historian, writer
Nationality
Chinese
Children
Ji Wanru, Ji Cheng [1]
Ji Xianlin (Chinese: 季羨林; pinyin: Jì Xiànlín; August 6, 1911 – July 11, 2009) was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.
JiXianlin (Chinese: 季羨林; pinyin: JìXiànlín; August 6, 1911 – July 11, 2009) was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who...
medical and magical texts, and one love poem. In 1998 the Chinese linguist JiXianlin published a translation and analysis of fragments of a Tocharian Maitreyasamiti-Nataka...
Element Encyclopedia). New York: Sterling. p. 32. ISBN 1-4027-3543-X. JiXianlin; Georges-Jean Pinault; Werner Winter (1998). Fragments of the Tocharian...
Tocharians embraced Manichaean duality or Buddhism. In 1998, Chinese linguist JiXianlin published a translation and analysis of fragments of a Tocharian Maitreyasamiti-Nataka...
Vaclav Zvelebil; Chinese professor of Indian literature and translator, JiXianlin; Greek diplomant, scholar and poet, Vassilis Vitsaxis; and Russian academic...
of 97. He was born in November 1923 in Kashmir. His native name was "Baba Ji", his father Mian Nizam Din Larvi and his grandfather Baba Jee Sahib Larvi...
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