dc.description.abstract | “Dharmapada- avadāna” is the earlier one of Chinese Buddhist fable literature. This classic is a metaphor Buddhist literature deriving from “Dharmapada”. The adages were integrated as part of the story.
Buddhist used to promote Buddhism for the crowd by telling stories. To attract the audiences, the order of events and the feature of characters of stories must be stressed. Therefore, those stories can be spread for a long time. Narrative mode is one of the methods to study Buddhism literature, so the author intends to investigate the several key narration factors, such as plot, character, language, narrator, theme, and so on. The research goal will reorganize the text narrative art and the literature characteristic
There are six chapters of the thesis. Chapter one is research motivation and purpose. There are introduction and reviews of current researches as well as research methodology. Chapter two reviews the formation of classic and introduces the Buddhism literature organization and how it was spread. Chapter three discusses Buddha’s magical powers and analyses the way Buddha educating people. Chapter four analyses people’s behavior and the plot which includes characters facing impermanence, transmigration, saint and evil in the oppose way, and characters become to a virtue from a fool. Chapter five compares other similar Buddhism literatures. Chapter six, conclusion, is to summary text narrative characteristic and literary value.
After summarization and analysis, the author had concluded that the narrative mode and literature value of “Dharmapada- avadāna”is as bellow: (1)the stories of Buddhism literature enrich the Chinese Literature in transmigration, magical power, transformation, and so on, (2) the narrators of Buddhism literature often stress the deep inside of the characters, which is different from the traditional Chinese Literature narrators, (3) the logic of Buddhism literature not only inherit the principle of Buddhism but also has innovation in the story content and narrative mode.
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