The Circle of Karma and Siddhartha: The Razor’s Edge of Renunciation

For a long time, Herman Hesse’s celebrated Siddhartha (1922) popularized a version of Buddhism in the West. However, by comparing it to Kunzang Choden’s The Circle of Karma (2005), the first Bhutanese novel published in English, with its similar plot of a seeker, this essay finds the ways it display...

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Main Author: Singh, Vijay Prakash (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2022, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 370-384
Further subjects:B Renunciation
B Equanimity
B Pilgrimage
B Buddhist
B Faith
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