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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SINOLOGY 5 (2014) — M. WOESLER, ED. — The Role of the Heart Sutra in The Dream of the Red Chamber · Understanding Honglou meng as A Dream about the Red Pavillion, and not as A Dream of the Red Chamber · Moulüe in the Honglou meng and in the Song of the Nibelungs · Color Symbolism of Redness in The Dream of the Red Chamber European Journal of Sinology 5 (2014) The European Journal of Sinology (EJSin) Editor: is published by the European Science & Martin Woesler Scholarship Association, currently under the scholarly auspices of the German China Witten/Herdecke University, Witten/Ger- Association. many; Università Roma Tre, Rome/Italy The journal contains articles, occasional All inquiries, manuscripts, job applications papers, review articles, book reviews, and books for abstracting/review should annotated translations, notes, and essays as be sent to: well as abstracts of papers of other journals Ruhr University Bochum, P. O. 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(inter)national shipping (single The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this issues and special issues): publication in the Deutsche Nationalbiblio- print version 49 € | US$/ year grafie; detailed bibliographic data are avail- online & print combined version 99 €|US$ able on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de . single online version only available for institutional access license programs © European University Press 2014 special issues 49 €|US$ http://verlag.rub.de/ejs.html Order: [email protected] http://china-studies.com “CONTENTS”, IN: EJSIN 5 (2014) 5 Contents Preview EJSin 6 (2015) EJSin 5 (2014) Editorial................................................... 7-8 Editorial...................................................7-8 The Idea of ‘Law’ in China: An Overview The Role of the Heart Sutra Luigi Moccia............................................9-55 in The Dream of the Red Chamber HONGLOU MENG SERIES.........................57 Karl-Heinz Pohl ......................................9-20 Why it would be much more correct 3rd International Dream of the Red to understand HLM as A Dream about Chamber Conference in Europe........58-61 the Red Pavillion, and not as A Dream of the Red Chamber A Crane standing amidst Chickens: Cao Xueqin’s Art of Bird Marina Čarnogurská .............................21-37 Symbolism Viewed against His Moulüe in the Honglou meng 红楼梦 Kin’s and Friends’ Writings and in the Nibelungenlied (Song of the Zhou Zuyan...........................................62-70 Nibelungs) Comparing Cao Xueqin’s and Harro von Senger ...................................38-60 Baiwei’s Qingwen with Gabriele A Dream of Equality – Has it been D’Annunzio’s Bianca Maria: achieved? Some Legal Aspects of the A Study in Sino-Italian Literary Facts in A Dream of Red Mansions Decadence Marián Gálik........................................72-83 Stefan Messmann ...................................61-75 Color Symbolism of Redness in Baochai Chasing Butterflies: The Dream of the Red Chamber Visual Culture in Honglou meng Wei Wu.............................................. 76-110 Kimberly Besio .....................................84-105 Index ............................................... 111-112 Index................................................106-107 POHL, “ROLE OF THE HEART SUTRA IN DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER”, IN: EJSIN 5 (2014) 9 - 20 9 The Role of the “Form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Heart Sutra in the Form is nothing but emptiness; emptiness is nothing but form.” Dream of the The message of non-duality is crucial Red Chamber to the understanding of The Dream of the Red Chamber: There is no difference Karl-Heinz Pohl between “emptiness” 空 and “form/lust” 色, no difference between “true” (reality 真) and “false” (fiction 假), no difference Abstract between Buddhist awakening and The Dream of the Red Chamber can be passion/love, no difference between read in a philosophical, that is, in a Samsara and Nirvana. Daoist/ Buddhist way: understanding the Hence, one has to go through the vanity of life by going through its fullness world of passion and love (“red dust”) in (of desires, passions and lust). order to awake to emptiness – which can Important for a Buddhist reading of also be the result of reading the book! the novel is some knowledge of the “Heart Sutra” (心经), one of the most popular and influential Buddhist Keywords scriptures in general. What are and where Mahayana Buddhism, Vimalkirti Sutra, do we find the signals to the Buddhist Non-Duality, Emptiness, Thusness meaning of the novel? Central terms and ideas of the “Heart Sutra” frame the book (in its first and last The Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou chapter), in particular the idea of Non- meng 红楼梦) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (c. 不二 Duality ( ), which arises from the 1715-1763), also known in English as The central passage of the “Heart Sutra”: Story of the Stone, is celebrated as the 10 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SINOLOGY 5 (2014) greatest of all classical Chinese novels, phical question: What is true and what is and this rightly so. None other matches it false? Or, as a semi-biographical novel: in its richness of content, its psychologi- what is reality (zhen 真 ) and what is cal characterization, its detailed de- fiction (jia 假)? – in the language of Goe- scription of social life of the 18th century the, the relationship between "Dichtung and its sensitivity to standards of traditio- und Wahrheit" (Fiction and Truth). nal Chinese aesthetics, such as the enjoy- ment of gardens, poetry, painting and The Daoist/Buddhist reading is cer- calligraphy. For this reason, the studies tainly one of the more fascinating ways of about the novel have become so nume- approaching the novel. Here, the central rous that they can hardly be surveyed idea is to understand the vanity of life by anymore by single researchers. going through its fullness of desires, passions and lust. Traditionally though, there are several established ways of reading the novel: as If it is to be read in this way, one a novel of manners (comparable to the Jin needs to understand the respective signals Ping Mei 金瓶梅 – The Plum in the Golden in the novel which is a demanding task, Vase1); as a chronicle of the decline of a particularly for a Western audience not wealthy family (like Thomas Mann’s Bud- too familiar with the respective back- denbrooks) including a political-historical ground. For non-native readers, the book frame of reference (and respective hidden is difficult enough for its many (untrans- criticism); as a sad love story; as a novel latable) puns based on the homophony of of formation/education or coming-of-age characters, particularly in the names of (what is called in German: Entwicklungsro- protagonists which are based on the man / Bildungsroman);
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