The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry.

This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtra translations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, us...

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Publicado en:	T'oung Pao Vol. 103; no. 1-3; pp. 94 - 155
Autor principal:	Mazanec, Thomas J.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Brill Academic Publishers 2017
Materias:	Buddhism & literature Chinese poetry Literary criticism Poetry (Literary form) Sūtras (Buddhism) Chinese Buddhism Translating & interpreting Buddhist poetry Transliteration History of Buddhism
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