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Item Buddhism as a Thematic Motif in Herman Hesse'sSiddhartha(Department of English, 2009) Ghimire, Punya PrasadAfter realizing the Anitya, Siddhartha, protagonist of the Herman Hessie's novel Siddhartha, remains as a ferryman forever. Though he has tested the extreme level of material and sensual pleasure earlier, his lusty andgreedy ego surrenders to the river, when he starts to hear its voice. To reach up to this level, Siddhartha, first, makes himself empty of parental love by renouncing his house for forever. Then, he leaves Govinda his intimate friend like his own shadow,then his Samanas gurus who teache him to control and transform the soul. Siddhartha also listens the awakened one-Gotama-but he decides to make himself empty of teachers and doctrines ahead. Though he learns the art of love from Kamala and business from Kamaswami but leave them behind as well.. At last, by the bank of the river, he gets wisdom, a vision of things from various perspectives. His wisdom is incommunicable because he acquires it through perception, not by teaching of the Samanas. By bracketing himself from the whole phenomenal world, he reaches to the state of “emptiness” and knows that everything is impermanence, a flux.Item The Concept of Attachment and Detachment in Buddhism(Department of Buddhist Studies, 2016) Punna, RevNot availableItem From Eternity to Momentary: Siddhartha's Journey in Hesse's Siddhartha(Department of English, 2008) Lamichhane, JagannathThe understanding of Self has been the all time challenge forall spiritual thinkers, teachers, and seekers. Siddhartha, the hero of Hesse's novel Siddhartha, also endeavors to understand the Self. He leaves family back along with the entire possibility of material prosperity for the spiritual quest. The hero struggles for years to reach his goal. Hisinitial quest for understanding Self clashes with his experience and destroys his earlier idea of eternity of the Self. In his quest for the Self, Siddhartha negates its eternity to establish the idea of its momentariness that is constructed by his desires, actions, and experiences. Siddhartha rejects the notion of Self as the divine, immortal Soul. After years-long struggle and experience, he realizes that there is no permanent Self to represent the cycle of rebirth.Siddhartha realizes that everything culminates in nothingness and the Self is just an impression constructed by different aspects of experiences and desires.Item The Monk WhoSoldHis Ferrari: Purification of Inner Self(Department of English, 2009) Khatiwada, SanjibRobin S. Sharma’sThe Monk Who Sold his Ferrariis an odyssey into the self, by a materially well-to-do, but spiritually hollow man Julian Mantle. Mantle was areputed lawyer in the United States, amassing wealth and popularity through his shrewd advocacy; however, until his physical collapse in the courtroom, during one of these famous trials. The collapse came as an awakening in his life; as it inspired him insearch of inner self, to query if he was leading a satiated and meaningful life.These queries made his present materially rich life meaningless and, hence, he discarded all the worldly belongings in search of spiritual happiness, and came to the land of the Himalayas in the Northern India, to realize his self through the practice of Mahayana, a sect of Buddhism.Item Quest for Inner Peace in R. K. Narayan’s The Dark Room(Department of English, 2010) Angdembey, BirendraThis research explores the quest for inner peace, the supreme state of bliss, in human being represented by Savitri in R. K.Narayan’s The Dark Room. Savitri, the protagonist of the novel, undergoes through various stages in life: ignorance, series of suffering in her household life, frustration, and realization of reality of the world, and achieves the inner peace, which is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. As the Buddhist philosophy believes that the acceptance of the natural course of life and behave accordingly is the best way for human beings to avoid the suffering in life. To go against it is to invite suffering. Savitri eventually attains the enlightenment through physical and spiritual experience and accepts this truth of the world pursuing the Middle path, as proposed in Buddhism. Although Savitri returns to the previous place, the trivial activities of mundane life do not have any influence on her unlike on ordinary human beings.Item Quest for Spiritual Peace in On the Road and How(Department of English, 2006) Rai, Amrit Bahadurack Kerouac's novel On the Roadand Allen Ginsberg's poem How lrepresent the spirit against postwar American capitalism. Both writers have tried to destabilize the capitalistic culture. America through its capitalistic system dominated all other values imposing its own capitalistic interests. Capitalism in America valued only money and material possession. This dehumanized the common people and degraded their spiritual values. These writings have made an effort to bring spiritual oriented culture in opposition to capitalistic norms and values. So, the present thesis tries to study the spiritual lack in postwar American world and its fulfillment.Item The Quest for Spiritual Truth in Hermann Hesse'sJourney to the East(Department of English, 2008) Bist, Resham BahadurJourney to the East, By Hermann Hesse is the story of acharacter's quest for Spiritual truth, written in the backdrop of the painful experience of World War I, the novel explores the fictional journey of HH and that of the League, a religious sect, to the East, the home of light. HH reaches his goal after much suffering, and it is the insight of suffering and salvation as mentioned in the Eastern religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, that Hesse uses as guidelines in this journey of salvation.