Identities of transmission of Buddhism in to the west: Modernist Literature
This is a comparative analysis of the modernist literature period.
However, readings are oriented around the social, political, historical, or biographical context of the following writers. Non-literary material will be used to explore the actual Buddhist influence in the west. (
1.The research investigates the above writers and the mentioned texts and, the period from 1900 onwards. will take each writer and analyse the representation of Buddhism in their work.
2.The study will also look at whether there is a transformation of the Buddhist identity across time.
3.What type of Buddhist concepts are discussed (e.g. karma, nirvana, samsara) and with time whether there has been a change of interpreting or choosing these concepts.
4. What for of Buddhism is commonly used in these works. (zen/Mahayana/Theravada)
4. Whether or how the social background has influenced to portray such Buddhist identity.
5. How the writer education or Buddhist background if there’s such has influenced the writing.
6. Whether or how the identity of Buddhism has been changing in these literary works over the period of given time.
Existing literature shows no such transformation of Buddhist identity over time, merely represents the Buddhist aspects in western literature with a background analysis of each writer in most of them
