TY  - JOUR
AU  - Guo WEI
PY  - 2023
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
IS  - 2
VL  - 19
SN  - 2065-5002
TI  - Literary Variation of Indian Buddhist Stories in Chinese 志怪 (Zhi-guai) Novels
DO  - 10.3726/CUL022022.0004
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1404068
N2  - In "Literary Variation of Indian Buddhist Stories in Chinese 志怪 (Zhiguai) Novels," Wei Guo discusses Buddhist Sutra scriptures which have been a reservoir of inspiration for Zhiguai novels since their first introduction in Chinese literature. Buddhist texts were less relevant for the "documentary" tradition of Chinese literature owing to their rough structure, vague context, and lack of a sense of history and reality, since they were originally intended as texts of didacticism. Hence, in order to integrate these exotic literary materials with local aesthetic concepts, Chinese writers explored creative adaptations including the addition of adding detail, linguistic embellishments, and the endowment of each story with specific narrative scenes in terms of character, place, and time. Guo argues that Indian Buddhist stories have been remolded in Zhiguai novels and transformed from imaginary religious literature into figurative and documentary literature whereby the convergence of the source texts with the target texts shows the processes of formation of world literature(s). Keywords: Buddhist Sutra; Sinicization; Zhiguai Novel; Mystery and Supernatural in Classical Chinese Literatur
KW  - Buddhist Sutra, Sinicization, Zhiguai Novel, Mystery and Supernatural in Classical Chinese Literature
ER  -