Zhu Feihuang 朱芾煌

Zhū Fèihuáng 朱芾煌 (1877-1955?)

Zhū is best known for his Dictionary of Dharmalakṣaṇa 法相辭典 (1939)

• Born 1877 (Guāngxù 光緒 3) in Jiāngjīn county 江津縣, Sìchuān 四川
• Died ca. 1955 in Běijīng 北京
• Alternative Name 又名: Fúhuá 黻華^[1]

Biography

Zhū was a member of the Tóngménghuì 同盟會, and participated in the early Republican government under Yuán Shìkǎi 袁世凱, but left politics around 1912. By 1921 he was in Běijīng listening to a lecture by Tàixū 太虛 with other prominent Beijing lay Buddhists, including Jiǎng Wéiqiáo 蔣維喬.

Zhū became an associate of Ōuyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸, was a student of Hán Qīngjìng 韓清淨^[2], and Zhōu Shànpéi 周善培. He is best known for his Dictionary of Dharmalakṣaṇa 法相辭典, written between 1934 and 1937, and published in 1939.

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Important Works

• 法相辭典 (1939)

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Notes

1. ↑ Sometimes written as 紱華
2. ↑ See Shì Dōngchū 釋東初, 中日佛教交通史, 737. [1]

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References:

• 維基百科-朱芾煌
• Yú Língbō 于凌波. Zhōngguó jìnxiàndài fójiào rénwù zhì 中國近現代佛教人物志. Běijīng 北京: Zōngjiào wénhuà chūbǎnshè 宗教文化出版社, 1995. Pp. 456-460.