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De Jong is well known for his amazing linguistic ability having had a command of Dutch, French, English, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Danish, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Pāli, and
Tibetan, as well as the rather acerbic quality of his reviews. His scholarly publications number more than 800; 700 of
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from 1939 to 1945, where he began his lifelong study of the "canonical languages" of
Buddhism: he took Chinese as his major, while minoring in Japanese and Sanskrit. With the closing of the university in 1940 following the German invasion of the Netherlands, de Jong was forced to continue his
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with Univ. of Leiden colleague F. B. J. Kuijper in 1957 in order to facilitate the publishing of scholarly articles in
Indology. In 1965, he moved to Australia to become professor of Indology at the Australian National University in Canberra, a position he held until his retirement in 1986.
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Mi la ras pa’i rnam thar: texte tibétain de la vie de Milarépa.
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A brief history of
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Ruegg, David-Seyford (2000). “In Memoriam J. W. de Jong”
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