Fang Yu
From Database of Modern East Asian Buddhism
Fang Yu 方于 (1903-2002) was a college teacher, translator, and female lay esoteric Buddhism.[1]
She was born in Jiangsu but grew up in Shanghai. In 1929 she married a scholar, Li Dan. Together, they began translating Western texts. When Norlha Lama visited Nanjing to give a talk in 1935, she began to study with him. The couple fled to Kunming with the threat of war with Japan. There she studied with Gangkar Rinpoche and Norlha's disciple Wang Jiaqi (1895-1959). She would found the Lotus Vihara in 1949 until it was forced to close in 1954. She would later reopen it in 1995 until her passing in 2002.
- ↑ Wu, Wei. Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949. United States, Columbia University Press, 2024.
