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The odyssey of the Buddhist mind: The allegory of "The Later Journey to the West".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The odyssey of the Buddhist mind: The allegory of "The Later Journey to the West"./
Author:	Liu, Xiaolian.
Description:	360 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3203.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9305277

The odyssey of the Buddhist mind: The allegory of "The Later Journey to the West".
Liu, Xiaolian.

The odyssey of the Buddhist mind: The allegory of "The Later Journey to the West". - 360 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3203.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 1992.

The Later Journey to the West by an anonymous Chinese author of the seventeenth century, was written as a sequel to Wu Cheng'en's (ca. 1510-82) Journey to the West, a story of Tripitaka and his disciples on a pilgrimage to obtain Buddhist scriptures in the Western Paradise. The sequel describes the journey taken by the younger generation of the original pilgrims to the Spirit Mountain in search for the true teachings of the scriptures. This dissertation examines the theme, structure and characterization of the novel and their allegorical meanings by demonstrating that the journey of the pilgrims operates on two levels: on the literary level, the heroes go through adventures and ordeals in the physical world of mortals, gods and demons; on the allegorical level, the process is symbolic of the religious transformation in the spiritual world of the human mind. Portrayed as historical figures, mythic beings and demonic creatures, the pilgrims and their adversaries carry out their thematic functions as symbolic personages representing the moral behavior of various social types, or personifying abstract ideas and desires in the realm of Buddhist psychology. Thus the depiction of the battle or confrontation between the pilgrims and their enemies represents the author's effort to illustrate allegorically not only the experience of resisting social evils and temptations, but also the dualistic nature of the human mind with both divine and demonic tendencies, as symbolized by Buddhas and demons. Structured on the Chan (Zen) Buddhist doctrine that Buddhahood (which stands for Truth or the final goal of Buddhism) is only attained through the cultivation of one's own mind, the journey ends with the pilgrims' triumph over their adversaries and their acquisition of the ultimate divine wisdom, which symbolize the perfect control of the secular mind as the source of all untamed human instincts and desires. Through the analysis of the themes and narrative techniques of the novel, this study aims to shed some light not only on the author's literary achievement, but also on the generic features of allegorical discourse against the background of both Western and Chinese allegorical traditions.Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The odyssey of the Buddhist mind: The allegory of "The Later Journey to the West".
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