Publications 2017

Indian Births and Western Rebirths of the Jataka Tales

Actes du colloque de la SARI ( Sociétés d’Activités et de Recherches sur les mondes Indiens) coorganisé avec le CREA de l’Université de Nanterre, les 26, 27 et 28 mai 2016

Publication dans la Collection Lectures du Monde anglophone (ERIAC, Université de Rouen Normandie), en novembre 2017 (Direction : Michel Naumann, Ludmila Volná et Geetha Ganapathy-Doré)

Résumé : This article explores the early history of the jātaka genre and opens up some questions about its relation to other bodies of pre-modern Indian literature. It asks to what extent a jātaka can be defined, how jātakas functioned within early Buddhist communities, and how their particular generic conventions allowed for both distinctively Buddhist perspectives and the inclusion of wider Indian narrative motifs. The article also touches upon the relationship between jātaka literature and other early Indian narrative texts, such as Jain scriptures and the Hindu Mahābhārata.

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