Yu Hsi is the founder and president of the Tamil Sangam in Taiwan.
13 Facts About Yu Hsi
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Yu Hsi was born Hung Ching Yu in Fangyuan township, Taiwan, on 16 March 1951.
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Yu Hsi has translated Tamil classic Thirukkural, poems of Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan and Avvaiyar's "Aathichoodi" into Mandarin.
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Yu Hsi has been ordained a Buddhist monk as Dao Yi.
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Yu Hsi was very interested in Hinduism and Indian philosophy.
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Yu Hsi counted Hindu god Ganesh as his favorite for having scripted the Mahabharata as told by sage Vedavyas.
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Yu Hsi considers the characters of Krishna and Arjuna to have influenced him greatly.
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Yu Hsi then agreed to translate the Thirukkural into Chinese and completed it in about three months.
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Yu Hsi installed a life-size statue of Valluvar, the author of the Kural text, in Taiwan.
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In 2004, Yu Hsi was awarded the Poet Laureate, the highest honour awarded by Seoul World Academy of Arts and Culture.
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Yu Hsi donated the amount to Tamil University for setting up of an endowment to propagate Tirukkural.
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In 2008, Yu Hsi received the Jan Smrek Prize in Bratislava, Slovakia, for his poetry inspired by Buddhism.
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Yu Hsi is the first foreign scholar to receive the Thiruvalluvar award.