Oriental Religious Thoughts’ Influence on Thoreau in Walden

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10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.129How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Oriental religious thoughts, Buddhism, Hinduism, Labor, Greed.

Abstract

Henry David Thoreau’s contact with and research on the Oriental religions thoughts is closely related not only to the influence of his tutor Emerson, but also to his solitude and free life attitude which resists material pursuit to be the aim of life. Thoreau’s thought and his works are greatly influenced by the Oriental religions thoughts, and Walden, as Thoreau’s master piece, shines brilliantly. As a great writer, Thoreau maintains a pivotal position in American literary history with his unique thoughts in his works which enlightens the people of the world, and the Buddhist and Hinduist thoughts help form the uniqueness of Thoreau’s thoughts.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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