The Study Of The Relationship Between The Literature Works Of Alai And The Tibetan Bon Religion

The Tibetan Bon religion experienced different historical periods of primitive religion and man-made religion. As a religion which had a great impact on Tibetan culture it have penetrated into the Tibetan psychological structure, cultural values, lifestyle and ethics, etc. and have a deep impact on the forming way of thinking and the views of the world of Tibetan. Because the Tibetan Bon religion is closer to real life and in the specific advantage of soluting a variety of practical activities in directly, even in Buddhist-dominated today, we can still find out that compare with Buddhism the atmosphere of the Tibetan Bon religion in real life is much thicker. The variety of activities and ceremonies of the gods in the Tibetan Bon religion meet the aspirations of divine harmony and also meet the practical needs such as production and living in real life.The Tibetan writer Alai was born in Jiarong Tibetan region of Sichuan province which has a strong atmosphere of the Tibetan Bon religion. The impact of the Tibetan Bon religion is in various aspects and so obvious. The concept of witchcraft, rituals and soul of the Tibetan Bon religion profoundly infiltrate into the Tibetan literature and develop into many iterary prototype and motif. In this paper, based on literary theory and in reference of anthropology and folklore we will have a study of the relationship between the literature works of Alai and the Tibetan Bon religion . At the same time try to find the literary tradition from the ancient Tibetan literature and folk literature works so that to characteristic the features of Alai's works in more comprehensive and accurate way.This article inclucds following parts:Chapter I :Introduct the origin and development of the Tibetan Bon religion and the history of the struggle of Bon and Buddhism as well as the basic concepts and beliefs of Bon religion. Have a brief intoduction of the literature work of Alai and have a overall view of his Bon religion background. Finally, to clarify the purpose and value of topics and the research status quo at home and abroad and the problems this paper want to solve.Chapter II :Study of the relationship of the literature work of Ala and the oviparous myth of the Tibetan Bon religion . Frist of all ,to organize a variety of oviparous myth of the Tibetan Bon religion and analysis the prototype of the myth and its derivativing modes like oviparous- sun worship, oviparous - bird worship, as well as the worship of white color and the worship of language. At last, combinating with the work of Alai to analysis the prototypes and modes so that to find out the development and replacement of the oviparous prototype in Alai's works.Chapter III: Study a large number of the images of Bon shaman in Alai's works. Frist of all,introduce the classification and functions of the shaman and then analysis four cases of his novels to show the world of Bon shaman in Alai's works in multi-level and multi-angle.Chapter IV:The Bon Animism concept and the soul-outgoing concept are combining with the ancient totem worship and divination-advocatinon and so that to produce the fantasy world is full of gods and ghosts in Alai's literature works. Alai's novel "The Fish" is the representative work.Chapter V:Analysis the marks of Bon customs and folk beliefs in Alai's literature works including the concepts like divination-advocating, simmer mulberry tree, mountain and lake worship.The final part get a conclusion that we can draw the characteristics of national character from the study of the relationship between Alai's literature works and the Tibetan Bon religion.