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Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s IMonkey Bridge/I

Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s IMonkey Bridge/I

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A793554105

Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s IMonkey Bridge/I

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Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s IMonkey Bridge/I

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MDPI AG

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Religions (Basel, Switzerland ), 2024-04, Vol.15 (4)

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English

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MDPI AG

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Most critics focus on the pain and suffering of the first-generation Vietnamese immigrants depicted in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge. This paper explores how Cao strategically uses the philosophy of karma in Vietnamese Buddhism to provide a method for alleviating their suffering in this novel. It argues that she employs karma to investigate the origins o...

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Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s IMonkey Bridge/I

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TN_cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A793554105

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A793554105

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2077-1444

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2077-1444

DOI

10.3390/rel15040404

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