Smoke and Mirrors: Buddhist Conceptions of Mind and Emptiness in Xiao Gang's

The Liang dynasty poet Xiao Gang’s “poems on things” (yongwu shi) have traditionally been read as shallow, overwrought descriptions of palace life devoid of the allegorical dimensions that were thought to ennoble the genre. This thesis argues that the figurative dimensions of these supposedly non-fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elford, Christopher
Other Authors: Wang, Yugen
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19321