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Buddhist Aspects of Leo Tolstoy’s Image and Ideas of Mahayana Philosophy in Victor Pelevin’s novel «t»
- Authors: Dubakov L.V.1
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- Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, People’s Republic of China
- Issue: No 1(882) (2024)
- Pages: 127-132
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/319294
- ID: 319294
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The article analyzes the Buddhist connotations of the image of Leo Tolstoy in Victor Pelevin’s novel “t” in the framework of a study devoted to the “Buddhist text” of modern Russian literature. It is established that when plotting the spiritual search of the protagonist, the writer, referring to the Buddhist intentions of artistic creativity and philosophical journalism of the real Leo Tolstoy, refers, among other things, to the ideas of Mahayana philosophy. Among them, one can, in particular, note the idea of the absence of a permanent separate “I” and the idea of the illusory reality.
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Leonid Viktorovich Dubakov
Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, People’s Republic of China
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Email: dubakov_leonid@mail.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philology Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
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