Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha"

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This paper discusses Herman Hesse's book, "Siddhartha", and explains that, in it, Hesse touches on the life and teachings of the Buddha Gotama while going beyond those teachings. Hesse tells us that the knowledge found in religious texts and stories, whether they be Hindu, Buddhist or whatever, is different than wisdom which can only be gained through direct experience. The paper also explains that the book goes beyond religion as it incorporates some of the ideas of Freud and Jung about the psychological development of the individual and the collective unconscious. Furthermore, the paper tells us that, being the creation of one man, rather than the accumulation of lore of the millennia, the book has a simplicity and coherent structure which the Buddhist legends lack.

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