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A Lasting Vision - Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters (Hardcover)
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A Lasting Vision - Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters (Hardcover)
Series: SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH SERIES
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A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature
(Kavyadarsa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in
south India (c. 700 CE), and to the treatise's remarkable career
throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and
translated into several languages spoken on the southern Indian
peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and on the Island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala,
Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan,
Mongolian). In all these receiving cultures it became a classical
text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well
into the modern era. It also travelled to Burma and Thailand, where
it held a place of honor in Buddhist monastic education and
intellectual life, and likely to the islands of Java and Bali,
where it contributed to the production of literature in Old
Javanese. There is even reason to believe that it reached China and
impacted Chinese literary culture, although far more peripherally
than in other parts of Asia. It also maintained a prominent
position in Sanskrit learned discourses throughout the Indian
subcontinent for at least a millennium. This multi-authored volume,
organized by region and language, is the first attempt to chart and
explain the Mirror's amazing transregional and multilingual
success: what was so unique about this work that might explain its
near-continental conquest, how was it transmitted to and received
in these different environments, and what happened to it whenever
it was being adopted and adapted.
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