Publication

2015 - Peeters Publishers & Booksellers

Language

French

Word Count

53,500 words, Guess

Page Count

214 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCGN365 .M54 2015

Description

"Pacific or conflicting migrations have often taken place in the vast Asian continent. A migration is not necessarily a displacement of a population. It can be the expansion of a language, the transfer of a culture. A single Sanskrit Pandit, expert in poetry or scholastic disciplines, could have a high power of influencing culture and determine the expatriation of a mythology, a literary genre, an artistic style, a script etc. Scientific ideas, political ideologies, aesthetic visions, metaphysical concepts, ritualistic or magical techniques, religions did travel on chosen roads. It is important to clarify such movements. Migration can happen for ever or for a season implying return and new departure. A movement is a source of transformation. It is important to show the evolution of a language, a text, a doctrine on their itineraries"--

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