Buddhist Impact on Ravindranath Tagore's Creations

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About the Book Buddhist Impact on Rabindranath Tagore Creations is one of the extremely important and very much relevant fields of studies in present academic world. Rabindranath Tagore, a great poet and philosopher, cherished a genuine love and admiration for Gautama the Buddha as the greatest man ever born on this earth. The greatness of the Buddha and that of Buddhist culture are equally manifested in his life and works. His superb songs and poems in praise of the Master, his dramas and inimitable prose writings glorifying the eternal virtues of Buddhism remain unparalleled in modern Indian literature and as a matter of fact, in any literature of the world. Besides, his keen and deep interest for the revival of Buddhist culture in our national life bears ample testimony to his love of Buddhism. Therefore, Tagore can rightly be called a modern torch-bearer of Buddhism culture.

This present research work is a critically examine the contribution of Rabindranath Tagore how far enhance the Buddhist culture in India and added valuable chapters to Buddhist literature. This book contains four broad chapters with many subchapters. The first chapter chiefly deal with the impact of Buddha's teaching on the thought and reflections of Tagore. The next chapter explored information on Tagore's contribution to Buddhist studies by establishing the various academic centers within the Visva-Bharati University. The chapter three categorically discovered eight pieces of special writings on Avadana in Rabindranath Tagore's poem entitled Katha. The last chapter explored a profound philosophical concept of Rabindranath Tagore that how deeply Tagore's life, ideology and understanding of nature and universe were influenced by Buddha and his teachings. This book rightly focused that Tagore has applied Buddha's ideology in his own life and used in his teachings as well.

This volume will continue to remain as a source book for future researcher; I believe and will establish itself as one of the leading reference books for scholars working on Buddhist Philosophy, Culture and Rabindranath.

About the Author Dr. Dipankar Salui has born in a middle class family at village Deucha in Birbhum district of West Bengal, India. He did graduation in Sanskrit Honors from Suri Vidyasagar College, Suri and Master in Sanskrit from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He did another M.A in Buddhist Studies (Acarya in Bouddha Darsan) with first class from Rastriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, Diploma in Tibetan Language and Culture from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, Certificate in Pali Language and Literature from Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, and Ph.D. Degree from Nava Nalanda Mahavihara (Deemed University), under the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, Nalanda, Bihar.

He has worked in a college of Hooghly District, West Bengal more than four years as a Part Time Lecturer in Sanskrit under Graduate and Post Graduate Level. After that he has worked more than three years as a Research Fellow in Tibetan Studies in the Asiatic Society (An Institution of National Importance), Kolkata.

Dr. Salui is a member of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata and member of Indian Society for Buddhist Studies, Jammu. His five research articles have been published in National/International Research Journals or books and eight research articles are accepted for publication in different Research Journals. He participated in numbers of State level, National and International seminars, conferences, webinars and presented papers.

Foreword Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore (7th May, 1861 - 7th August, 1941) was a great poet, a writer par excellence, a philosopher, religious thinker, intellectual leader, songwriter, musician, artist, educational reformer, a great exponent of humanity, great personality of Indian Renaissance and India's pioneer of peace and harmony to the world and first Asiatic to achieve the Nobel Prize in literature for his Gitanjali.

Gautama the Buddha and his philosophy played an important role in Rabindranath's spiritual outlook. He was greatly influenced by the Buddha. The rational and humanistic aspects of the teachings of the Buddha and Buddhist culture have attracted Tagore more. He always respected Buddhist principles and values and earnestly, passionately used it in his literature at large. He had accepted Gautama the Buddha as his ideal and inspiration. Throughout his life, he had the deepest reverence for the Buddha, in his observation; the teaching of the Buddha is a humanistic philosophy which gives universal respect for all humanity in all countries.

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