RELIGST 1J03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ramayana, Jataka Tales, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 1J03
• Professor: Joe Larose

Document Summary

Points in great books of asian religions course pack. Introducion 1-10: the assumpion and goals of this volume. We explore ramayana telling"s in light of their structure, diversity, and context. We have built upon the careful research of earlier studies that trace the historical and literary peregrinaions of rama"s story. Our goal is to consider the logic that informs, and the relaions that exist between, selected telling"s of the ramayana, as well the cultural contexts of those telling"s. The essays share ive assumpions about the plurality of ramayana tradiions in india and thailand. First, we deem all the incidents connected with the story of rama and sita, equally worthy of our atenion. Second, we accept the idea of many ramayanas and place valmiki"s within the framework. We need instead to consider the many ramayanas, of which valmiki"s telling is one, Tulsi"s another, kampan"s another, the buddhist jataka yet another, and so forth.