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Paul Demiéville
戴密微Paul Demiéville is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning literature, religion and philosophy, language and philology. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1894—1979Switzerland / France
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Paul Demieville made major contributions to the study of Chinese Buddhism, Dunhuang texts, Chan, poetry, and Buddhist exchange between China and Japan. He recognized early that Japanese Buddhist sources and Japanese scholarship were indispensable to the study of Chinese Buddhism.
After the wartime deaths of several leading French sinologists, Demieville played an important role in sustaining that scholarly tradition and its major publication platforms. His work exemplified an integrated philology spanning Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, and Buddhist textual studies.
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