there， he learned Chinese and Tibetan. He became a professor at the University of Ghent in 1895， remaining there over thirty years. He founded the Societe Belge d'Etudes Orientales in 1921， and was one of the editors of the journal Le Museon. He is best known for his multi-volume French translation of Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa published between 1923 and 1931. Largely through La Vallee Poussin's work， the Franco-Belgian School of Buddhist Studies solidified， giving rise to a generation of Buddhist scholarship."