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Buddhist Stories in the Early Tang Dynasty and the Rise of the Literary Tales' Style

Han Yun

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The Buddhist stories in the early Tang Dynasty,following “the Buddhist Notes” in the Six Dynasties,had a quick development.They showed general life of values by abstracting religious faith,and general emotional life by changing religious world to human world.So they hold a “fiction flavour”. They also offered some new meanings in story prototypes,narrative models and spreading tactics for ancient pre\|fictions.These factors directly helped to bring about the rise of Literary Tales' style in Tang Dynasty.

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The Buddhist stories in the early Tang Dynasty,following “the Buddhist Notes” in the Six Dynasties,had a quick development.They showed general life of values by abstracting religious faith,and general emotional life by changing religious world to human world.So they hold a “fiction flavour”. They also offered some new meanings in story prototypes,narrative models and spreading tactics for ancient pre\|fictions.These factors directly helped to bring about the rise of Literary Tales' style in Tang Dynasty.

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The Buddhist stories in the early Tang Dynasty,following “the Buddhist Notes” in the Six Dynasties,had a quick development.They showed general life of values by abstracting religious faith,and general emotional life by changing religious world to human world.So they hold a “fiction flavour”. They also offered some new meanings in story prototypes,narrative models and spreading tactics for ancient pre\|fictions.These factors directly helped to bring about the rise of Literary Tales' style in Tang Dynasty.

Key concepts: Buddhism, Faith, Narrative, Literature, Style (visual arts), Six Dynasties, History, Chinese literature

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