Fables Chinoises du IIIe au VIIIe Siècle de Notre Ère

Title

en_US Fables Chinoises du IIIe au VIIIe Siècle de Notre Ère

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: chi

en_US Traduites par Édouard Chavannes, Versifiées par Mme. Édouard Chavannes

Creator

en_US Chavannes, Alice Dor, See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Karpelès, Andrée

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:04Z

en_US 2006-04

en_US 1921

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1921

Abstract

en_US Here is a small-format (5 x 6½) paperback book containing eighteen stories, two tables, and a T of C. The tables give first the date of the translation of these fables from Sanscrit into Chinese and next the correspondence between these stories and those published by Chavanne in a larger volume of stories. The title adds as description of the fables offered here d'origine hindoue. They are indeed stories of the Buddha. Might they all be Jatakas of some sort? An example may be the fifth story (38), in which the Buddha helps an old mother of a deceased only son to accept the fact that we all face death. She gets a sense of our common impermanence. A few fables later (52), a goose carrying a turtle to water opens her mouth to say something sage--and of course drops the turtle to the ground, where humans pick it up and eat it. On 76 is the familiar story of the hare who throws himself into the fire in order to nourish another. The woodcuts range from small printer's designs to full-page illustrations. I find them rather simple and predictable. Notice the swastika that shows up as a small design on 93. A curiosity of the cover (but not of the title-page) is that the name of Edouard Chavannes is spelled without an accent on the beginning E while his wife's name includes the accent on the same word. On the title-page, it is accented for both.

Identifier

en_US 6000 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81418

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Bossard

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US BQ1173.F7 C43 1921 See all items with this value

en_US Chinese See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole