泰戈尔与“东方学”

作为学科的“东方学”产生于近代西方。20世纪初在东西文化对话中，东方的知识精英审视自身的传统，形成了不同于西方立场的“东方学”。泰戈尔是东方“东方学”的奠基人。他获得诺贝尔文学奖，在西方产生巨大影响，成为西方真正认识东方的文化象征。他是在20世纪初的世界格局中，具有整体东方意识的思想家和诗人。他对“东方学”的许多课题都有自己的思考，对东方文化的精神实质、现实中东方文化的建设策略、东西方的关系等论题都有具体、系统的探讨与建构。他创办的“国际大学”，成为东方研究中心和人才培养基地，培养了大批东方传统的继承者和研究者。

Tagore and “Orientalism”

Orientalism, as a discipline, originated in the modern West. At the beginning of the 20th Century, in the dialogue between Eastern and Western cultures, the Eastern intellectual elite based on their own traditions, formed “Orientalism” that was different from the Western standpoint. Tagore is the founder of the “Orientalism” in the East. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, having a great impact on the West. He is the cultural symbol for the West to understand the East. He was a thinker and poet with an overall oriental consciousness in the pattern of the world at the beginning of the 20th Century. He has his own thoughts on many subjects of Orientalism, and has a specific and systematic discussion and construction on the spiritual essence of the oriental culture, the construction strategy of realistic oriental culture, and the relationship between the East and West. He founded the “Visva Bharati”（International University）, as the Oriental Research Center and personnel training base, cultivating a large number of successors of Eastern traditions and researchers.