Topic > Journey to the West and Dante's Divine Comedy - 1946

'O lady who gives strength to all my hope and who allowed yourself, for my salvation, to leave your footsteps there in Hell.'All At the beginning of the Divine Comedy, Dante gets lost in the woods and falls into a dream. In the dream, as in an Alice in Wonderland style dream, Dante met Beatrice and considered her a wonderful pilgrimage companion. Beatrice, like Christ for Dante, encouraged him to get out of the tangle of the forest as he was dying. “Under the powerful compulsion of this love for Beatrice, Dante began a new apprenticeship, an apprenticeship in the art of poetry as the way to the truth about their love.” This is a journey to feel love, to serve God. However, pilgrims have the right to see God without an interpreter only if they are forgiven of sins. In the pilgrimage, with the timeless creed, Dante was very aware of the nature of original sin, the salvation given by God and the meaning of the pilgrimage. . Dante was also aware of God's care and love. Like the Divine Comedy, The Journey to the West, a well-known fiction in the East, depicts a legendary pilgrimage of the Tang Dynasty. The Buddha asked a Buddhist monk, Xuanzang, to obtain sacred texts in India and provided four disciples who could atone for themselves by helping the monk. After eighty-one adventurous experiences, the monk reached the "Western Region" and obtained the sacred texts together with his disciples. The similarity of sacramental pilgrimage over different cultural and historical landmarks demonstrates that both Christianity and Buddhism exist side by side and share common ground and comparability. Christianity and Buddhism have some similarities in the method of achieving salvation, however, their basic teachings have......middle of paper......QuotedAlighieri, Dante. Divine Comedy. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam Classics, 2004. Jacoff, Rachel. “Dark Preface: An Introduction to Paradise.” In Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff, 205-25 .Cambridge: Cambridge Up, 2007Yu, Anthony C. “Two Literary Examples of Religious Pilgrimage: the “Comedy” and “The Journey to the West.” The University of Chicago Press Vol. 22, No. 3, 1983, Wu Cheng'en, “introduction to travel to the West” Foreign Languages ​​​​Press 1 edition 2003. Mao Chengrui.”浅析《西游记》中猪八戒的;形象” (an analysis of the image of the pig in the Journey to the West) Literary education n.1 (2010)Dino Compagni, “Dino Compagni's Florentine Chronicle”. Translated by Daniel E. Bornstein University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986 Bloom, Harold. “Dante's strangeness: Beatrice and. Chelsea House Publisher,2014