Ding Fubao 丁福保

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Dīng Fúbǎo 丁福保 (1874-1952)

Dīng was a writer and publisher, best known for his Great Dictionary of Buddhism 佛學大辭典 published in 1922, a translation of Bukkyō daijiten 仏教大辞典 by Oda Tokunō 織田徳能.

• Born June 22, 1874 (Tóngzhì 同治 13) in Wúxí 無錫, Jiāngsū 江蘇
• Died 1952 in Shànghǎi 上海 of natural causes
• Style name 號: Chóuyǐn jūshì 疇隱居士
• Courtesy name 字: Zhòngyòu 仲祐

Biography

Dīng studied many subjects as a child, and in 1896 he became a scholarship student in training for the civil service examinations (shēngyuán 生員) in Wúxí 無錫. He would go on to study in Dongwu University 東吳大學 in Sūzhōu 蘇州, chemistry in Shànghǎi 上海, Japanese at the Fuzhou Japanese School 東文學堂 in Fúzhōu 福州, and medicine from Zhào Yuányì 趙元益. He taught in the School of Translation Studies 譯學館^[1] at Imperial Capital University 京師大學堂^[2], and in 1910 he traveled to Japan to research medicine there, later returning to Shànghǎi where he practiced medicine and established a medical press.

From 1914 he started to become interested in Buddhism. During his lifetime he wrote and published on many subjects, including philology, textual studies, numismatics, medicine, Buddhism, textual collation, and so on. He is said to have spent over ten years translating his Great Dictionary of Buddhism 佛學大辭典, which was published in 1922. He donated several tens of thousands of books and printed materials to Shanghai University 上海大學, Beijing University 北京大學, Wuxi University 無錫大學, and Aurora University 震旦大學. He also donated his house in Wúxí to the Wuxi Buddhist Association 無錫佛學會.

Important Works

• 佛學大辭典
• 一切經音義提要
• 佛經精華錄箋注
• 六祖壇經箋注
• 心經箋注
• 六道輪迴錄
• 佛學指南
• 佛學起信論

Notes

1. ↑ Formerly the School of Combined Learning 同文館, established in 1862
2. ↑ Established in Běijīng 北京in 1898, later to become Beijing University

References:

http://www.wxzx.gov.cn/Info.aspx?ModelId=1&Id=2943

Yú Língbō 于凌波. Zhōngguó jìnxiàndài fójiào rénwù zhì 中國近現代佛教人物志. Beijing: Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe, 1995. Pp. 423-431.