František Drtikol: Between the Theosophy and Communization of Buddhism Cover Image

František Drtikol — mezi teozofií a komunizací buddhismu
František Drtikol: Between the Theosophy and Communization of Buddhism

Author(s): Joanna Królak, Piotr Ślusarczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Buddhism; communism; totalitarianism; František Drtikol;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to verify the thesis that František Drtikol was a ‘patriarch of Czech Buddhism’, an epithet widely used in the scholarly literature. Based on an analysis of biographical materials we find such a characterization to be considerably oversimplified. Although the photographerdefined himself in these categories and was fascinated by Buddhism, he is not its representative.Rather, from a philosophical point of view, his biographies and works have an eclectic character, consisting of a conglomerate of artistic, modernist and theosophical ideas. At the same time, Drtikol’swork is an example of the integration of the two logically contradictory paradigms of Marxism andBuddhism, which is related to the larger problem of the communization of Buddhism.

  • Issue Year: 16/2019
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 123-131
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech