Abstract
Taking issue with Phillip Zarrilli's influential 1990 essay on what it means to “become the character” in Asian performance, Ahmed argues that Zarrilli's construct is problematic when viewed from a Buddhist perspective. Ahmed's case study is Caryā Nŗtya, a ritual dance performed near Kathmandu in Nepal for over a thousand years.
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© 2003 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003
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