狄平子是中国近代著名的社会活动家,他赞助黄茂林最早英译《六祖法宝坛经》,促进了中国禅宗文化在英语世界的传播。他积极参与各种佛教文化活动,创办佛学刊物,影印佛典,注重培养佛教外语人才,倡导中国佛教的国际交流,弘扬了中国佛教文化,是一位具有中国文化走出去意识的翻译赞助人。 Di Pinzi is a well-known social activist in modern China. He sponsored Huang Maolin’s earliest English translation of “The Ancestry of the Sixth Parable,” and promoted the spread of Chinese Zen culture in the English-speaking world. He actively participated in various Buddhist cultural activities, founded Buddhist publications, photocopied the Buddhist scriptures, paid attention to cultivating Buddhist foreign talents, advocated the international exchange of Chinese Buddhism, and carried forward the Chinese Buddhist culture. He is a translation patron with the awareness of going out of Chinese culture.