India & China: A Thousand Years of Cultural Relations

by Prabodh Chandra Bagchi

About The Book -: This book, by one of the most outstanding Sinologists dealing with our classical past, provides an excellent perspective and furnishes the background for new historical insights. It makes very worthwhile reading for students of India-China relations especially for Sinologues. It is most illuminating to read from an Indian viewpoint the rise of the Central Asian kingdoms and China’s westward expansion into those regions simultaneously with the introduction and expansion of Buddhism in and around China. While drawing substantially on the work of Chavannes, Pelliot and Sylvain Levi, especially on the travels of the early Buddhist missionaries and the Chinese pilgrims who came to visit India, he has his own contributions to make. His vast learning and complete grasp of original sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Tibetan, and Nepalese languages leave a stamp of authority on every page of the work. For the first time, a plethora of important materials collected from original Chinese sources combined with the findings of French and German experts have been presented before the English knowing scholars. About The Author :- Prabodh Chandra Bagchi ( 1898 – 1956) or P. C. Bagchi was one of the most notable Sino -Indologists of the 20th century. He was the third Upacharya (Vice-Chancellor) of Visva-Bharati University. He was born on 18 November 1898, the eldest son of Shri Harinath Bagchi and Smt Tarangini Devi in present-day Bangladesh in Magura District. He was to lose his mother in his early childhood. He did his schooling in Srikole, Magura District in present Bangladesh. Bagchi was a brilliant student and a favourite of his teachers and Head Master who expected great things of him. In 1914, he appeared for the Matriculation examination. He graduated from Krishnagar Government College in 1918 with honours in Sanskrit. He stood first in his college and received the prestigious Mohini Mohan Roy award. The Title 'India and A thousand years of cultural

232 pages, Hardcover

First published December 5, 2008