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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0356-4349
Access Type
Campus-Only Access for Five (5) Years
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Chinese
Degree Type
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2020
Month Degree Awarded
September
Abstract
The present academic studies on Wang Wei usually focus on his landscape poems and claim that these landscape poems imply Buddhism. Their methods usually analyze Wang Wei’s Buddhist tendencies from his life experience. But it needs more textual analysis to prove that the relationship between his poem and Buddhism. The Introduction section provides the relationship between the Buddhist principles and Wang Wei’s Buddhist poems. The Buddhist principles were figuratively represented in Wang Wei’s poems by describing certain images from Buddhist Sutras. Chapter 1 presents the analysis of the couplets of each Buddhist poem through their connection to Buddhist doctrines. Chapter 2 summarizes the characteristics of Wang Wei’s Buddhist poems and emphasizes the use of Buddhist philosophy as a poetic image.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/17795380
First Advisor
David K. Schneider
Second Advisor
Zhongwei Shen
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Yan, "The Sutras as Poetry: Wang Wei's Use of Buddhist Philosophy as Poetic Image" (2020). Masters Theses. 986.
https://doi.org/10.7275/17795380
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/986