Hard-Boiled Zen: Janwillem Van De Wetering's the Japanese Corpse as Buddhist Literature
Though many studies of the contemporary Buddhist literature exist, such studies often limit their purview to canonised, 'high-brow' authors. In this article, I read Janwillem van de Wetering's The Japanese Corpse, a detective novel, for how it portrays Zen Buddhism. I show that The Ja...
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Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 382-397 |
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