Suffering And Emancipation

Jin Yong has got touch with Buddhism since his childhood and then hebecame a Buddhist layman after the suicide of his son, so there are so many factors of Buddhism in his martial arts novels, in which "The semi Gods and semi Devils" is the most one. This novel which contains a complicated plot and a large number of characters is to be the emblem and generalization of the multitudes. As a whole, the novel has been a percept combination of art and religion, there is a grate emotion of mercy which is hanging over the suffering of life and the comparative studies about this novel between art and religion are of great value. There is a fact that the novel is dramatically so similar to The Four Holy Principles of Buddhism in content and structure, they both have a perfect show of suffering in life and give a necessary emancipation from ignorance. so the studies of the important figures who are well or bad which is established on The Four Holy Principles of Buddhism and comparative approaches are able to show the formation of this complex novel. The studies which are said above are beneficial to both the Buddhism and the creation of novel.