Yeghia Temirchipashyan (1851–1908) is a Western Armenian writer, philosopher, teacher, and editor. He is one of the original figures of the new Armenian literature of the second half of the XIX century; in addition to theoretical issues, in the course of his journalistic activity, naturally, he also dealt with the problems of the literary criticism. In his numerous publications of theoretical nature, Temirchipashyan thoroughly studied the issue “What is poetry”, in particular, “personal and impersonal literature”, analyzed the need for literary criticism, criteria for evaluating the contemporary literature, problems of true reflection of the modern stage of history. On the basis of all this, he expressed his attitude and appreciation of the works of the classical and modern writers.

KeywordsYeghia Temirchipashyan: literary critic “Yerkragunt” art poetry novel soul body creative freedom.

During the active period of Yeghia Temirchipashyan's activity (1851-1908), in the last quarter of the 19th century, the mysteries of existence: the issues of matter and soul, life, death and immortality were the subject of permanent discussions of the literary, scientific and philosophical thought of the time. The mentioned questions in the true sense of the word were oppressing Yeghia Temirchipashyan's mind and soul. In the end, he stops before the Mystery of Death, the End, the Mystery of Nothing. Yeghia Temirchipashyan's point of view, of course, did not end with the wisdom of the Great Nothing. Particularly, his work ''The influence of the Buddha'', published under the name Nuria and defined as philosophical novel by the author himself, sheds light on this issue. From this we learn that he was deeply fascinated by the idea of Nirvana while studying Indian history, language, religion and philosophy at school.

KeywordsYeghia Temirchipashyan matter soul life death love existence simple complex mystery Nirvana.