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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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Front Liter Stud Chin    2010, Vol. 4 Issue (4) : 523-552    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-010-0110-x
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The New Type of Buddhist Chanting and the Poetry Transformation in Yongming Reign’s Period
JIN Xi1, WANG Xiaodun2()
1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China E-mail: eisenbain@sina.com; 2. School of Literature, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China
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This paper examines the Buddhist chanting in Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties from several aspects, such as the historical position of it, the reason for its flourish, its speech way, etc. This paper also redetermines the relationship between Buddhist chanting and poetry writing in middle ancient times. The results for this research are as the following: First, The effective factor of Buddhism on Chinese phonology was not Buddhist chanting, but Sutra translation. Second, Buddhist verses were mainly translated or created by monks. However, in Yongming reign’s period of the Southern Qi dynasty, more and more verses were written by the literati. Third, the new type of Buddhist chanting had the same principle with poetry in Yongming reign’s period, and they were two major cultural movements keeping pace with each other in the same time. Fourth, the influence of the new type of Buddhist chanting on Yongming poetry was displayed on verbal expression. It made the way of Buddhist chanting in Wu region official, and pushed forward the establishment of a new way of poetry intoning which also based on the accent of Wu.

Keywords Buddhist chant      poetry transformation      intonation in Wu dialect     
Corresponding Author(s): WANG Xiaodun,Email:vxd11@yahoo.cn   
Issue Date: 05 December 2010
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JIN Xi,WANG Xiaodun. The New Type of Buddhist Chanting and the Poetry Transformation in Yongming Reign’s Period[J]. Front Liter Stud Chin, 2010, 4(4): 523-552.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/flsc/EN/Y2010/V4/I4/523
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