Wang Xiaoxu 王小徐

Wáng Xiǎoxú 王小徐 (1875-1948)

One of China's great early modern scientists, Wáng was a founding member of Academia Sinica and, as a lay Buddhist, wrote several of the most influential works on Buddhism and science in the Republican period.

• Born in 1875 (Gāunxù 光緒 1) in Sūzhōu 蘇州, Jiāngsū 江蘇
• Died in 1948 (Mínguó 民國 37) in Sūzhōu
• Name 名: Jìtóng 季同
• Alternate name: Jìkǎi 季鍇
• Style name 號: Xiǎoxú 小徐
• Courtesy name 字: Mèngpǔ 孟普

Biography

Major Buddhist Works (in chronological order)

Kēxué zhī gēnběn wèntí 科學之根本問題 (The Basic Problematic of Science).” 1926.

Dú Jǐn Hàn jūn [Fóxué bā shì zhī pīpíng yǔ yánjiù] 讀錦漢君【佛學八識之批評與研究】 (Reading Mr. Jin han’s Criticism and Research of the Eighth Consciousness in Buddhism). 1927.

Fófǎ zhī kēxué de shuōmíng 佛法之科學的說明 (Scientific Explanation of the Buddha-dharma). 1929.

Fófǎ yǔ kēxué zhī bǐjiào yánjiù 佛法與科學之比交研究 (A Comparative Study of the Buddha-dharma and Science). 1932.

Wéishì yánjiù xù 唯識研究序 (Preface to Reearch on Consciousness-Only).” In Zhōu Shújiā 周叔迦, Wéishì yánjiù 唯識研究 (Research on Consciousness-Only). 1934.

Yīnmíng rù zhènglǐ lùn mōxiàng, yìmíng, Dōng Xīyáng lùnlǐxué zhī bǐjiào yánjiù 因明入正理論摸象, 亦名, 東西洋論理學之比較硏究 (Grasping at the Import of the Nyāyapraveśa or, A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Logic). 1934.

Fófǎ shěngyào 佛法省要 (Brief Essentials of the Buddha-dharma). 1942.

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