Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)

The Religious Effects of Metaphors of Songs and Lyrics in Dunhuang Buddhism

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Wang Yanghe
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Wang Yanghe
Available Online December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.104How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Dunhuang songs and lyrics; metaphor; rhetoric; spread
Abstract

The religion is closely related to art. Among the Buddhist books, the metaphorical technique, one of the language arts, is more prominent. There are 823 Buddhist songs including 228 metaphorical words (not counting repeated metaphorical words) in Summary of Dunhuang Songs and Lyrics of REN Zhongmin. From the perspective of rhetoric, the use of the metaphor can make the language vivid, concise and comprehensive. In the spread of Buddhism, the use of metaphor highlights the core concepts of Buddhism and can effectively attract believers. The metaphor highlights and shapes the Buddhist images of "beauty and nobility", "kindness" and "freedom from suffering".

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-641-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.104How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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