Contribution of P.C. Bagchi on Sino-Indo Tibetology

Professor Probodh Chandra Bagchi’s contribution on Sino-Indo Tibetology was the topic of the National Seminar held by the Asiatic Society on 18th November 1998. This Seminar was organised to mark the birth centenary of Professor Bagchi. Professor Bagchi was an Indologist in its true sense, a genuine Linguist, and the greatest of the Sinologues. He had ingeniously mastered the classical languages like Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit. He also acquainted himself with Tibetan and Chinese. He had also enough working knowledge of English, French and German. He has proved himself to be the true disciple of Professor Sylvain Levi, as he had thoroughly studied the historical materials on India available in Chinese records. His investigations into Indological researches moved principally through Tibetan and Chinese sources. The seminar was attended by a galaxy of scholars many of whom were closely associated with Professor Bagchi. The papers presented during the seminar focus on various aspects of Professor Bagchi’s scholarship. We have received nine informative papers by nine eminent scholars who have made their marks for a long period and whose erudition has brought for them high respect from the academic world. We are publishing these papers in a book-form keeping a view to acquaint the present and future educators and educatees with different aspects of the researches Sinology carried on by Professor Bagchi.