Special Issue "Exploring Buddhist Traditions in Literature"
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 16406
Special Issue Editor
Interests: South and Inner Asian Buddhist traditions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Buddhist traditions across Asia and beyond have developed their rich literary traditions that encompass diverse literary genres on every possible Buddhist topic. Buddhism’s rich literary heritage provides scholars with the opportunity to explore Buddhist traditions through literature by means of various approaches. This Special Issue welcomes explorations of the connections between the genres, styles, and subject matter; the interaction between the historical and emergent literature and a given Buddhist culture and thought; the interplay between the Buddhist literature and art or performance studies; the intertextuality, appropriations, and adaptations; innovative interpretative approaches to selected literary source/sources; epistemology of Buddhist literature; phenomenology of Buddhist literature; Buddhist metaphors and religious experience; Buddhist literary aesthetics; lay Buddhist literature; Buddhist literature and authorship; transnational Buddhist literature; monastic life in the literature; and any other topics related to the SI theme.
This Special Issue of the Religions journal will supplement various anthologies of Buddhist literature in translation.
Prof. Dr. Vesna Wallace
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Buddhist literature and culture
- Buddhist literature and arts
- literary appropriations and adaptations
- Buddhist metaphors and religious experience
- Buddhist literature and authorship