| Titre | Jeux humains, jeux divins. Vues indiennes | |
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| Auteur | Gérard Colas | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 20, 1998 Du divertissement dans la Chine et le Japon anciens. « Homo Ludens Extreme-Orientalis » | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | III. Regards extérieurs |
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| Page | 157-163 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Human games, divine games : Indian views
Sanskrit literature, like the literatures of the Far East, advocates a measured hedonism. It describes elegant and cultured men of the well-to-do classes who practise all sorts of games, physical and intellectual, as well as enlightened amateurs, kings and notables, who patronize poets selected through literary competitions. However, belles-lettres do not open an administrative career as they do in China. Poetical games are numerous. They bear on linguistic sense and form. The notion of implicit meaning (dhvani) is essential to them. India, like the Far East, associated entertainment with secular and religious teaching. But it also gave a metaphysical and transcendental interpretation of the notion of games. Going beyond a purely negative understanding of mâyâ (« illusion »), the Hindu religious texts describe a mâyâ-creating god and the world as his game. The Indian interest in drama partly reflects this conception. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_1998_num_20_20_1061 |
