Earlier this year, he became the first person from his country to receive a certain honour. Who is he and which honour?
The man in the visual was Ji Xianlin, the first person from China to be awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian Government.
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Ji Xianlin, first Chinese to win a Padma Bhushan.
Dear Uncle:
This is Ji Xianlin, the famous linguist and writer, who was the first Chinese person to get a Padma Bhushan.
I’m going for the theme: China.
Kind regards,
Thomas Masun
季羡林 or Ji Xianlin
,the first Chinese man to win the Padma Bhushan
Ji Xianlin- Chinese linguist
First chinese person to be awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Ji Xianlin. Padma Bhushan. 2008
Ji Xianlin ,the indologist was conferred the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government.
Ji Xianlin who won the Padma Bhushan.
I vaguely remembered reading about him because of an article talking of the Padma Bhushan winners which had my ex school principal´s name in it, but this info has surprisingly not made it to wikipedia yet (although Dr. Chona has!)
Padma Bushan was given to Chinese Indologist Ji Xianlin by the indian government.
After putting much struggle on Google with search words like Chinese + Man + Honour figured out that this person is Ji Xianlin – an indologist who was given the Padma Bhushan by the Govt of India and hence the first Chinese to get this award. I hope this is the answer.
Prof. Ji Xianlin from China, an Indologist and Sanskrit expert who received the Padma Bhushan
Ji Xianlin- Padma Bhushan.
This is Ji Xianlin, the Chinese scholar and Indologist awarded a Padma Bhushan last Republic Day, for his contributions to the scholarship of Sanskrit in China. I think he also translated the Ramayana into Mandarin, in verse.
Ji Xianlin. The first Chinese person to be awarded the Padma Bhushan
Ji Xianlin,
the Chinese sanskrit teacher who won the Padma Bhushan this year.