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Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India

Name: Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India
ISBN: 9781423762164

Anne E. Monius

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While Tamil-speaking South India is celebrated for its preservation of Hindu tradition, other religious communities have played a significant role in shaping the region's religious history. Among these non-Hindu communities is that of the Buddhists, who are little-understood because of the scarcity of remnants of Tamil-speaking Buddhist culture. Here, focusing on the two Buddhist texts in Tamil that are complete (a sixth-century poetic narrative and an eleventh-century treatise on grammar and poetics), Monius sheds light on the role of literature and literary culture in the formation, articulation, and evolution of religious identity and community.

Kategorien:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

Jahr:

2001

Verlag:

Oxford University Press

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

272

ISBN 10:

1423762169