Rhetorical uses of the exemplary child trope in the Biographies of Eminent Monks and Biographies of Nuns
Chinese hagiographers and historians from the Warring States period onward had a variety of rhetorical tools at their disposal for conveying superlative character, with one of the most ubiquitous being the exemplary child trope. When Chinese Buddhist hagiographers began to memorialise the lives of t...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-111 |
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Biographies of Nuns [Biqiuni zhuan 比丘尼傳]
B Buddhist hagiography B exemplary children B Biographies of Eminent Monks [Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳] B children in Buddhism |
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