Imagining a Place for Buddhism : Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India
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.Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India Anne E . Monius Assistant Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia ... Her analysis of the rhetorical strategies employed by the author, using those classical themes to his own Buddhist ends, ... various musical instruments (ii.18-32), and the technical terminology used for the various curtains of the theatrical stage (v.
| Title | : | Imagining a Place for Buddhism : Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India |
| Author | : | Anne E. Monius Assistant Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia |
| Publisher | : | Oxford University Press, USA - 2001-11-12 |
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