An outstanding work of modern scholarship, the book was eventually translated into Japanese and garnered Yin-Shun an honorary doctorate from Taisho University, thus making him Taiwan's first Buddhist monk ever to receive a PhD.
這本極富現代學術價值的書傳到日本後，不僅被譯為日文，並為印順長老爭取到大正大學的博士學位，成為我國第一位「博士比丘」。