Reading the Mahavamsa: the literary aims of a Theravada Buddhist history
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Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text 'Mahavamsa' is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. 'Reading the Mahavamsa' advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas).
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Kristin
Scheible - Language
- English
- Series
- South Asia Across the Disciplines
- ISBN
- 9780231542609
- Release date
- 2017
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Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal...