1943年冬天,我在印度孟加拉邦的诗圣泰戈尔的国际大学中国学院任教时,有两个学生:一个是锡兰的慧明法师,一个是印度旁遮普邦的乞寂法师在朝拜佛教圣地八大灵塔归来后,告诉我在摩揭陀国的华氏城(今比哈尔邦的巴特那市)无意间发现了一个私人博物馆。最使我惊奇的,那博物馆的藏品竟大部分是中国古物,有书画、铜器、玉器、瓷器,还 In the winter of 1943, when I was teaching at the International College of Chinese Language and Culture in Bintang Tagore, Bengal, India, I had two students: one was Master Huiming of Ceylon, and the other was a Buddhist monk from Punjab, India, Afterwards, I was told that I accidentally discovered a private museum in Fahrenheit city in Mozambique (Patna, Bihar nowadays). Most surprising to me, most of the museum’s collections are Chinese antiquities, calligraphy and painting, bronze, jade, porcelain,