Emancipating the individual: Tagore's use of Buddhism as a modern liberation theology

V.A. van Bijlert

Emancipating the individual: Tagore's use of Buddhism as a modern liberation theology

V.A. van Bijlert

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This chapter deals with Tagore's use of Buddhist themes to further his agenda of gender and class emancipation. Buddhism often functions as a symbol of humanism and equality which Tagore believed originally informed the early phase of Indian culture.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contemporarising Tagore and the World
Editors	Imtiaz Ahmed, Muchkund Dubey, Veena Sikri
Place of Publication	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Publisher	The University Press Limited (UPL)
Chapter	3
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-984-506-120-9
Publication status	Published - 2013

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