Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培

Cài Yuánpéi 蔡元培 (1868-1940)

Courtesy name 字: Hèqīng 鶴卿 Style name 號: Jiémín 孑民 Born 12/17 Tóngzhì 6 (1868) in Shānyīn county 山陰縣, Shàoxīng 紹興, Zhèjiāng 浙江 Died March 4, 1940 in Hong Kong 香港

Notable Associates: Dí Chǔqīng 狄楚青 Jiǎng Wéiqiáo 蔣維喬 Wáng Xiǎoxú 王小徐 Wáng Yītíng 王一亭 Xióng Shílì 熊十力 Zōngyǎng 宗仰

Cài Yuánpéi 蔡元培 (1868-1940) was well-known as an educator and intellectual. Also he did not identify as a Buddhist, he had a life-long interest in Buddhism, lending his support to the periodical Fóxué cóngbào 佛學叢報 (Buddhist Miscellany). He also supported the Fóhuà xīn qīngnián huì 佛化新青年會 (Association for the Buddhacization of the New Youth)

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References

• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974. Pp. 2:566-572.