Mpu_Dusun

Mpu Dusun

Mpu Dusun

Medieval Indonesian writer

Mpu Dusun was a Javanese Buddhist guru and writer who lived in the later Majapahit period, in the late 14th to early 15th century period.[1]

Personal life

The name Mpu Dusun is a pen name, his birth name is unknown. He is identified as Mpu Dusun in his work Kakawin Kunjarakarna in the final stanza when he states "kīrti sira mpu Dusun" - this is a work of mpu Dusun. He is theorized to have come from a rural background, and did not spend much of his life in a court, unlike other poets of the time. He was a Buddhist monk or a priest, but much of his work was syncretic with the dominant Hinduism of the time.[2]

Works

  • Kakawin Kunjarakarna

References

  1. [1]
    Teeuw, Robsson, A, S.O. Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana, Liberation through the Law of the Buddha.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. [2]
    Teeuw, Robsson, A, S.O. Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana, Liberation through the Law of the Buddha. If this is more than an unusual form of self-depreciation, and should be accepted as the poet's nom de plume, we might perhaps conclude that the author was not a man belonging to court circles, but rather one with a rural religious background; for he is mpu and therefore we might trace his background to religious circles, and identify him as a monk or priest living in a patapan or mandala, etc., of the type which he describes in his poem and which we know from many other kakawins as well{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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