Trần Văn Giáp

Trần Văn Giáp (Hanoi, 1902 - 25 November 1973) was a Vietnamese historian who wrote the first widely published histories of Buddhism in Vietnam in French. The two volumes, for Annam and Tonkin respectively were published in Paris in 1932. Giáp was an authority on Hán-Nôm (i.e. both Chinese and Demotic script) literature.[1] On his return to Vietnam he published various other histories in Vietnamese, both in Latin alphabet quốc ngữ and Chinese chữ Nho.

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  1. Keith Weller Taylor; John K. Whitmore (1995). Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. p. 83. Giáp was undoubtedly a scholar well versed in the field of Hán-Nôm (i.e. Chinese and Demotic Script) literature, yet his knowledge of Buddhism in general and Chinese Buddhist history and literature in particular left much to be desired.
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