Tang Yongtong

Tang Yongtong (1893.6.21-1964.5.2) is a philosopher, Buddhist, educator and master of Chinese studies. His ancestral home is Huangmei County, Hubei Province, and he is from Weiyuan County, Gansu Province. 19 17. After graduating from Tsinghua University, he went to study in the United States, entered hamlin University and Harvard University, and obtained a master's degree in philosophy. After returning to China, he has been a professor at National Southeast University (1928 changed to Central University, 1949 changed to Nanjing University), Nankai University, Peking University and National Southwest Associated University.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as Vice President Peking University, member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences, member of the first Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the third Standing Committee, and representative of the first, second and third National People's Congress.

Tang Yongtong is one of the few masters of Chinese studies in China's modern academic history who can communicate with China and the West, contact China and Vatican, and cast ancient and modern works. Together with Chen Yinque and Wu Mi, they are called "Three Masters of Harvard". He is the author of History of Buddhism in Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, A Brief History of Indian Philosophy, Wei, Jin and Metaphysics, etc.