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Literatur ohne Schrift? - Der Sonderfall Indien und die Rolle des Buddhismus

German · Paperback / Softback

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In India, the literary tradition goes back to the second millennium BCE. Indigenous scripts, however, appear only in the third century BCE. Is it possible to preserve extensive and very complex texts through an exclusively oral transmission during such a long time? This question continues to prove highly controversial. However, the rather special relation between oral transmission and writing is a distinctive feature of ancient Indian civilization. Apparently the Buddhists can be counted among the first who undertook steps towards a change of media. This is suggested by Indian manuscripts that were unearthed about twenty years ago in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are by far the oldest ever found, and they preserve Buddhist texts.

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Authors Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Publisher V&R unipress
 
Languages German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.12.2015
 
EAN 9783847105350
ISBN 978-3-8471-0535-0
No. of pages 51
Dimensions 123 mm x 210 mm x 5 mm
Weight 70 g
Illustrations mit 11 Abbildungen
Series Fakultätsvorträge der philologisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien
Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät d.Uni Wien
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies

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