| Type of Material: | Thesis |
| Title: | A journey to bodh a study of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau |
| Researcher: | Moitra, Samridhya |
| Guide: | Dattagupta, Mukulika |
| Department: | Department of English |
| Publisher: | Adamas University |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Arts and Humanities | English | Arts, Humanities and Languages |
| Dissertation/Thesis Note: | PhD; Department of English, Adamas University; 2022 |
| Fulltext: | Shodhganga |
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| 245 | __ | |aA journey to bodh a study of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau |
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| 502 | __ | |cDepartment of English, Adamas University|d2022|bPhD |
| 518 | __ | |oDate of Award|d2022 |
| 518 | __ | |oDate of Registration|d2018 |
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| 520 | __ | |aThis study through a reading of the non-fictional prose writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau advances the argument that the two American Transcendentalists shared a fruitful relationship with Buddhist thought and philosophy an influence which has been somewhat understudied in scholarship. By mapping the history of Buddhism and its influx into Europe and America, this thesis explores and charts the kind of Buddhist discourse that was in circulation in nineteenth-century America, further delineating how Emerson and Thoreau s degree of exposure to and their knowledge of Buddhism had been relatively greater than has been generally perceived by the critical consensus. Using a comparative methodology the study proceeds to demonstrate how the affinities among Emerson, Thoreau and the Buddha go deeper than simply ostensible from the manifest references to Buddha and Buddhism in the letters, journals and published writings of Emerson and Thoreau. Their works carry copios traces of Zen, Tibetan and |
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