Literary Research On "Biography Of The Fifth Dalai Lama"

《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》,also called 《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama : Ella》《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama Rosangatso》《The story of Awanrosangatso ’ s illusory journey on earth:Ella 》《 Biography of monk Awanlosangatso’s fantasy game · Qinggu Miaoyi 》 and so forth,was the autobiography of the fifth Dalai Lama Awanrosangatso,which was compiled from 1671 to 1681.The fifth Dalai Lama Awanrosangatso enjoyed high prestige among monks and believers,who was called “the great fifth Dalai Lama”.He devoted all his life to the religious,political,economic and cultural development of Tibet and the communication and development between Tibetans and Han,Mongolian,Manchu and other ethnic groups,which played an important role in the peace and stability of Tibet and the strengthening of ethnic unity.He had high attainments in religion,history,literature,calendar and Tibetan medicine,and wrote a lot in his life,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》was one of them.The biography was completed on the basis of his own experience,records of clerks and various other materials,and the records of clerks were the most important materials,because they laid the foundation of “ faithful record”for《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》,expanded its scope of content,and enhanced its historical value.In terms of content,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》inherited the writing tradition of the biography of Tibetan eminent monks,took the religious activities of the preacher as the clue,highlighted the three merits of the preacher "skillfulness,martial law and virtue",presented a rich mysterious culture and reflects profound Buddhist thought.At the same time,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》 had made some innovations: first,in the records of the scribes,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》had expanded the scope of writing and added a large number of historical events and some daily trifles.Secondly,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》not only created the image of the preacher’s eminent monk and great virtue,but also portrayed the image of the preacher’s politician and scholar.Most importantly,the fifth Dalai Lama wrote his own personality and broke through the previous writing tradition.Finally,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》 reduced the publicity of the miracles of the fifth Dalai Lama,which was also different from the biographies of other Tibetan eminent monks.In terms of narrative characteristics,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》inherited the Buddha’s "Twelve macro" narrative structure,pursued easy to understand in narrative language,and wrote in chronological order in narrative time.At the same time,the biography had some innovations in Narrative: first,both pursued easy to understand in narrative language,but《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》went further than other biographies of Tibetan eminent monks.There was no rhyme in the body and end of the biography,only praise and praise in the beginning.Secondly,the biography reduced the use of lyric expression and is more emotionally restrained.Thirdly,a large number of comments were added to the biography,which directly revealed the author’s views and views,integrated the author,narrator and characters,enhanced the credibility of the biography and shortened the distance between the author and readers.Finally,in terms of narrative time,taking the time when the fifth Dalai Lama officially mastered the political and religious power as a symbol,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》could be divided into two stages.The first stage presented a relatively "accelerating" effect-describing the story for a long time in a short text length;At the same time,due to the lack of records of scribes and less available materials,the limited events were stretched and the description is more detailed,which made this stage more literary and more valuable.The second stage presented a "deceleration" effect-a longer text length is used to describe the story for a shorter period of time.This stage mainly used a lot of space to describe the religious activities of the fifth Dalai Lama,which was relatively boring.As the Autobiography of the political and religious leaders of Tibetan Buddhism,《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》had important historical value for studying the history of Tibetan Buddhism,political history,cultural history and literary history in Tibet in the 17 th century,such as the development and dissemination of Gelug Sect in Tibet;Construction of Potala Palace;The Gelug Sect and Gushi Khan of Heshuote Department of Mongolia jointly defeated Tibetan and Pakistani Khan and established Gandan pozhang regime;The fifth Dalai Lama went to Beijing to make a pilgrimage to Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty;The war between Tibet and Bhutan;Wu Sangui’s connection with Tibet when he started fighting against the Qing Dynasty;《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》was an indispensable academic material for research.The writing mode of 《Biography of the fifth Dalai Lama》also influenced the biographical creation of Tibetan eminent monks in later generations,especially the biography of the Dalai Lama and the biography of Panchen Erdeni;The biography also provided rich materials for the creation of Chinese modern and contemporary literary works.