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  • Chapter 27 - The German Study of India and Buddhism

  • from IV - Life, Language, and the Ancient World
  • Edited by David Trippett, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Wagner in Context
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2024, pp 267-274

  • Summary

    Wagner’s fascination with Indian literary culture followed a similar impulse from Schopenhauer, Friedrich Schlegel, and Karl Köppen, among others, as part of an ‘oriental renaissance’. The German construction of India, after William Jones’ pioneering work on Sanskrit Upanishads while in the East India Company, accrued around the promise of philological routes to the origins of world culture, demonstrating a primordial link between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. It also offers a context for Wagner’s passion for Buddhism, as distinct from Vedic Hinduism, and the figure of the Buddha, most notable in Die Sieger and Parsifal, but also traceable in the Ring.