Chao Gejin
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
This paper gives a general background of Buddhism among Mongolian people and the Mongolian epic tradition. Via the following facets we could see how Buddhism influenced over Mongolian epic narrative: first, notion of world view (story structure, time and space, view point of the epic world), second, epic images connected with Buddhism (in both narration and painting), and third, epic functions (disseminate the power of Buddha, etc.).
(Presented in the International Conference – Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond, 9-11 August 2010, Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, organized by Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University with support from The Thailand Research Fund (TRF), in co-operation with Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Institute of Asian Studies, The Confucius Institute, Chulalongkorn University and l’École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO))