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The Image of Buddha from Victorian Perspective: A Study of Richard Phillips's The Story of Gautama Buddha and his Creed: An Epic (1871)

The Image of Buddha from Victorian Perspective: A Study of Richard Phillips's The Story of Gautama Buddha and his Creed: An Epic (1871)

This book analyzes the representation of the Buddha in Richard Phillips’s The Story of Gautama Buddha and his Creed: An Epic, a 1871 classic poetic work on the Buddha’s life and teachings. The poet constructs the poem from a variety of elements, including Buddhist literary texts and cultural conceptions, e.g., modern science and humanism. As humans are subject to suffering, the Buddha, as a human, has to solve problems by himself. The Buddha believes that humans can spiritually and intellectually develop. Different from the Buddha in other traditional Buddhist texts, Siddhartha in The Story of Gautama Buddha and his Creed: An Epic is represented as the ideal Victorian gentleman, realistic human, evolutionary man, reformer, and scientist. Such a representation accounts for Arnold’s conception of the Buddha as a human being who learns and undergoes intellectual and spiritual improvement.