The power of genres and the project of secularisation: publishing the Gesar epic in contemporary China
This article examines how published episodes from the life of Gesar - a king described in Tibetan epics - are assigned literary classifications inside and outside China. Outside of China, Tibetan publishers categorise these narratives using the explicitly Buddhist terms "tale of liberation"...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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| In: |
Culture and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 322-350 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Ge-sar-Gyi-sGrungs
/ Publication
/ Secularization
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Secular
B Publishing B China B Genre B Tibet B Gesar |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |