Having read many different versions of Lao Tzu's Tao-te-ching he sought out Bernhard Karlgren, who was director of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities at that time.
他遍讀了英、法、德等好幾種不同譯本，卻不敢相信它們出自同一原著，因為翻譯的結果完全不同。他決定求教當時任遠東博物館館長的漢學權威高本漢。「老子」領入門，索性學中文