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NARRATIVE DEVICES IN THE BUDDHIST CANONICAL AVADANAS AND JATAKAS
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NARRATIVE DEVICES IN THE BUDDHIST CANONICAL AVADANAS AND JATAKAS
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| Contributor |
Muralidharan V. R.
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Buddhism
Indian Narrative Literature Jatakas Literature Sanskrit |
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| Description |
The Buddhist literature is considered to be the treasure house of narrative techniques It had got great prominence in all over the world because of its religious flavour Buddhists had adopted various kinds of stories as a medium of propagation of religious ideals The remarkable fact is that these tales gave life and vigour to their religion The oral transmission of the tales was take place by the activities of Bh¡ akas They helped to widen the range of Buddhist narratives There are a number of commentaries and reinterpretations on these tales throughout various countries newlineBuddhist literature employs the techniques of almost all the ancient Indian literary genres India is considered to be the birth place of Buddhist ideals Due to the varied and multiple socio religious activities of India Buddhist monks had migrated to various places Thus the literary treasures of Buddhism also migrated There are a number of studies in the realm of Buddhist narrative literature Most of the studies are from the countries like China Tibet Sri Lanka Japan and so on In these countries Buddhism is still the living tradition But in present India it is of less prominence compared to other countries The modern studies on Buddhist literature in the light of western ideologies are remarkable Most of the original texts are not available in their original form but their fragments can be traced in the form of commentaries in various languages From the beginning of Christian era Indian scholarly world were aware of Buddhist narratives J¡takatales had got wide spread acceptance among common people because of its simple and oral transmission A number of literary works were formed on the basis of these tales Thus a study on the narrative devices applied in the tales is relevant — |
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2017-07-27T05:50:42Z
2017-07-27T05:50:42Z 1-12-2012 2016 21/01/2017 |
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Ph.D.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10603/163248
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English
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self
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— DVD |
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Kalady
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Department of Sanskrit Sahitya |
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University
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