Buddhism : Compassion as a transformative Panacea for Humanity in the poems of Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot
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One of the all-time greatest contributions of India to the world is Buddhism. Historically, Buddhism arose in sharp reaction against the dogmatism and too much ritualism of Brahmanism, profoundly speaking, Buddhism was such a philosophical and mystically methodized religion as it has had far-reaching impact on art and philosophy of the whole world. The creative souls of the world literature have been equally influenced by the inspiring transforming vision embedded in Buddhism. Be it Indian, European and American literature, we come across tremendous influences of Buddhism on two of the all-time great writers of the west – Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot. The present paper is a humble attempt to explore and explicate selected major poems of Whitman and Eliot to vindicate the transformative role of compassion as Buddhist doctrine in objective manner.
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