Li Yizhuo 李翊灼

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Lǐ Yìzhuó 李翊灼 (1881-1952)
  • Courtesy Name 字: Zhènggāng 李證剛, sometimes written as 正剛
  • Wade-Giles: Li I-cho
  • Born 1881, family from Wēnzhèn town 温圳鎮 in the Línchuān 臨川 area of Jiāngxī 江西
  • Died 1952, in Nánchāng 南昌 of illness
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Lǐ Yìzhuó 李翊灼 (1881-1952) was an academic, scholar of Buddhist history, and author of several works on Buddhist Studies. He, Ōuyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸, and Guì Bóhuá 桂伯華 are popularly known as the "Three Outstanding People of Jiāngxī" 江西三傑.

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Biography

Lǐ received a traditional education as a child. Some time in the 1900s under the influence of his fellow Jiāngxī native Guì Bóhuá 桂伯華 he began to study under Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 at the Jīnlíng Scriptural Press 金陵刻經處, where he excelled at the study of Yogacara 法相唯識. In 1908 he and Ōuyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸 reportedly attempted to start an agricultural operation on Mount Jiufeng 九峰山, but it was not successful. In 1912 he participated in the establishment of the first short-lived Chinese Buddhist Association (1912) 中國佛教會 along with Ōuyáng, Guì, Lí Duānfǔ 黎端甫 and others.

When the Dunhuang manuscripts were brought to the National Library in 1911 (then the Capital Library 京師圖書館), Lǐ was contracted to catalogue and write abstracts for the texts. He identified about 160 texts that did not exist elsewhere, and indexed them in his 疑偽外道目錄, first published in 1912 in the first issue of 古學匯刊. This index was later included in the indices section of the Taisho Canon. In July 1924 he represented Jiāngxī Buddhism as one of about 10 Chinese participants at the second World Buddhist Federation meeting 世界佛教聯合會 at Lúshān 廬山.

Lǐ taught at a number of schools, including Xīnyuǎn University in Jiāngxī 江西心遠大學 and Northeastern University 東北大學 in Shěnyáng 瀋陽, where he taught Philosophy, Buddhist Studies, and classes on the Book of Changes. After the Mukden Incident of 1931, he went to Běijīng to teach at Tsinghua University 清華大學, and in 1933 accepted a position at Zhōngyāng University 中央大學 in Nánjīng 南京 where he taught for ten years. In 1948 he returned to Nánchāng 南昌, where he died of illness in 1952.

Lǐ was married to Guì Yuánchéng 桂圓成, the sister of Guì Bóhuá, though the two reportedly were not close and at some point Yuánchéng returned to her brother's home.

Important Works

  • Xizang Fojiao lueshi 西藏佛教略史 (Brief History of Tibetan Buddhism). 上海: 佛學書局, 1929, 12月. S1582
  • Foshuo mohe bore poluo miduo xin jing miyi shu 佛說摩訶般若波羅蜜多心經密義述. 上海: 中華書局, 1930. S0284
  • Xizang Fojiao shi 西藏佛教史 (History of Tibetan Buddhism). 新文化叢書. 上海: 中華書局, 1933, 2月. S0365
    • The content of this book is identical to the "brief" history published in 1929
  • 勸發菩提心淪
  • 心經密義述
  • 印度佛教史
  • 金剛經講義疏輯要
  • 佛學偽書辨略
  • 敦煌石室經卷中未入藏經論著述目錄
  • 維摩詰經集注

Notes


References

Print references for Lǐ are scattered; at the moment online sources provide the most information. Many of them reproduce the same biographical sketch; the original source of this information appears to be a work by Yu Lingbo.

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