E-Books →Buddhist Literature As Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy As Literature

Free Download Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhist Literature As Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy As Literature"
English | ISBN: 1438480717 | 2020 | 381 pages | EPUB, PDF | 16 MB + 3 MB
Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, and this book attempts to answer them by exploring the relationship between literature and philosophy across the classical and contemporary Buddhist worlds of India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and North America. Written by leading scholars, the book examines literary texts composed over two millennia, ranging in form from lyric verse, narrative poetry, panegyric, hymn, and koan, to novel, hagiography, (secret) autobiography, autofiction, treatise, and sutra, all in sustained conversation with topics in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophies of mind, language, literature, and religion.