Rabindranath Tagore in China.
胡適《追憶太戈爾在中國》（《胡適文集 七》北京大學出版社，頁626-27。）中，談到《華嚴經》的《回向品》所記：…”盡人而悅之”是不可能的…。「回向」是大乘佛教的一個思想，即已成”菩薩道”的人，還得回向人間，為眾生努力。
(胡適徵引了《華嚴》〈十回向品〉(25): 濟一切眾生,令其咸得一切智心。 ... 他說「回向」是《華嚴經》的一個要義。)
胡适这首诗完成于1922年10月,是读过《华严经》的《回向品》后的感悟。胡适选择在泰戈尔生日这天将此诗送给泰戈尔,一是表示泰戈尔来自佛教国度,二是对此时正受到中国知识分子批评的泰戈尔以示安慰。
胡適這首詩完成於1922年10月,是讀過《華嚴經》的《回向品》後的感悟。
胡適選擇在泰戈爾64歲生日這天將此詩送給泰戈爾 (參考 “Tagore's International University”收藏品，見糜文開翻譯的《頌歌集‧跋》),一是表示泰戈爾來自佛教國度,二是對此時正受到中國知識分子批評的泰戈爾以示安慰。
回向
他從大風雨裡過來，
爬向最高峰上去了。
山上只有和平，只有美，
沒有風和雨了。
他回頭望著山腳下，
想起了風雨中的同伴，
在那密雲遮著的村子裡，
忍受那風雨中的沉暗。
他捨不得他們，
但他又怕那山下的風雨。
“也許還下雹呢！”
他在山上自言自語。
他終於下山來了，
向著他密雲遮處走。
“管他下雨下雹！
他們受得，我也能受！”
Parinamana
Hu Shih
(I was in a train from Tsinan bound for Peiping on October 1922 when the Parinamana chapter in the Sutra of Hua Yen inspired me into writing this poem.)
Through the oppressive storms has he come,
And already attained the summit of the mountains
Where peace and beauty comfort him,
And the stormy rains threaten him no more.
He turns his head towards the valley below,
And remembers the comrades he has left behind
In that dismal valley shrouded by thick clouds
To endure the gloom of the storms.
He cannot bear the thought of parting with them;
But he is weary of the winds and the rain. "There may be hailstorms; too,"—
Says he on the summit of the mountains.
Lo! he is coming down the mountain path,
Walking towards the valley shrouded by the thick storms.
"Rain or hail, come what may!
What they can endure I can also!")
(On May 8, 19211(sic), the 64th birthday of Indian poet Tagore, friends of Peiping's Crescent Moon Society held e celebration in his honor. I wrote this poem on e scroll end he requested me to translate it into English. I did tho best I could as above.)
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胡適日記：1956年8月3日所記的 (為何當時中國思想背景已經不能接受泰戈爾的思想)，與芝加哥大學的Stephen Northrup Hay所談的，後來出的書：
Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India.
- Series: Harvard East Asian Series, (Book 40)
- Hardcover: 501 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; First Edition edition (July 1, 1974)
用Hu Shih全文檢索，除了有1956年8月3日的訪談，還有1954年10月13日的博士論文Tagore's Trip to China in 1924 前的訪談。
1924年5月11日胡適給泰戈爾的信。
IN MEMORIAM
Stephen Northrup Hay
Professor of History, Emeritus
Santa Barbara
1925—2002
Stephen had an extraordinarily wide-ranging mind. Primarily a scholar of South Asia, he combined his deep interests in history, science, psychology, archeology, natural science, philosophy, and religion to produce a number of books and many articles in the field. Among his books are Sources of the Indian Tradition, Southeast Asian History: A Bibliographic Guide: Dialogue Between a Theist and an Idolater (Brahma-puttalik sanavad), and Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India. At his death, he had completed one book on science, religion, and prayer and another on the youth of the man he most admired, Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi.
Stephen's interests ranged far beyond his specialty; he had a superb grasp of European and American cultural history as well and spoke German fluently. Always original, always unconventional, he created a logical, mathematical set of musical notation. His originality was nurtured at Deep Springs College, a small, isolated liberal arts college, and then at Haverford. From 1944 to 1946 he served in the U.S. Army, and afterwards he traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, and India. Always determined to meet and converse with great thinkers, Stephen had dialogues with Carl Jung, Martin Buber, and Sri Aurobindo; sadly for Stephen, and of course for the entire world, Mahatma Gandhi died before Stephen could meet him.
Stephen took his B.A. from Swarthmore and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard; he taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard before coming to UCSB in 1966; he retired in 1990. He was a Fellow of the Asia Society and a Fulbright Fellow; he won the Watmull prize and the Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal for Literature. Stephen and his wife Eloise, Professor of English, were known for their deep conversations on matters of philosophy and religion, and Stephen, a man of eclectic faith, endowed the study of Islam in the History Department and the study of prayer in the Religious Studies Department. The History Department has created a Stephen Hay Fellowship for graduate students. No one could know Stephen without deeply profiting from his deep spirituality and his original thought.
Jeffrey B. Russell
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泰戈爾到了北京與一些學者交往之後，才知道彼此有許多相似處。像但丁和喬叟在其時代，泰戈爾和胡適都選擇日常使用的白話文來表達和創作。
The Essential Tagore By Rabindranath Tagore, HUP,2011, p.15
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泰戈爾作品和一些因緣
Rabindranath Tagore (
Bengali:
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর,
Robindronath Ţhakur)
α[›]β[›] (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) 是文藝全才--《泰戈爾作品》的漢文詩集相當多
四十年前 台灣有
靡文開編 《泰戈爾詩集》台北:三民 1963/1992第17版
漂鳥集 1-72(此書書林有漢英對照版 傅譯)
新月集 73-140
採果集
頌歌集 (
跋中收 胡適在泰戈爾64歲時贈的"回向"一詩 這年齡令我有點困惑 因為它寫於1925年 訪華之前......)
園丁集
愛貽集
橫渡集405-454
後來台灣兩種諾貝爾獎(1912) 都收入不少
泰戈爾在1928年訪問中國 在上海和北京都是盛事 留下許多紀錄 很可惜沒出專書......
泰戈爾作品和一些因緣
Did you know that Bob Dylan wasn't the first songwriter to win the Nobel? Calcutta-born poet Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the prize in 1913:
"Tagore was a true multi-disciplinarian. He was a performer, essayist, artist, poet, as well as a lover of music and a fine, prolific writer of songs. He wrote in both Bengali and English and translated his own work. The title of his most famous creation, a collection of 103 lyric poems published in 1912, is Gitanjali:
Song Offerings. Tagore had translated the work on his sick bed in Bengal, feeling too ill to work on new material. As the title suggests, much of the material contained therein are songs, albeit songs that Tagore converted into compositions that are meant to work as poetry without music. This collection — a small slice of his oeuvre, which includes 60 books of verse — almost certainly secured Tagore the prize. It throws into question the claim that Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel in Literature. If this really was a collection of songs, then that’s it — Tagore had Dylan beat by over a century. And yet."
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編著者：石井公成（駒澤大學教授，本書日本版主編）、釋果鏡（法鼓文理學院佛教學系副教授，本書繁中版主編）
