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Author : Lionel David Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UCSD:31822011680543
Author : Lionel David Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:652065034
Author : Lionel David Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCP5E
Author : John Clifford Holt
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120832698
John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns, have shaped the shifting patterns of the veneration of Visnu in Sri Lanka. Holt begins with a comparative look at the assimilation of the Buddha in Hinduism. He then explores the role and rationale of medieval Sinhala kings in assimilating Visnu into Sinhala Buddhism. Offering analyses of texts, many of which have never before been translated into English, Holt considers the development of Visnu in Buddhist literature and the changing practices of deity veneration. Shifting to the present, Holt describes the efforts of contemporary Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka to discourage the veneration of Visnu, suggesting that many are motivated by a reactionary fear that their culture and society will soon be overrun by the influences and practices of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians.
Author : Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781040021729
This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era. Bulathsinghala examines the impact of indigenous and imported folk theatrical forms on the work of the most significant postcolonial stylistic dramatists and on key plays that they produced. In the process, the book explores a number of myths and misunderstandings regarding Sri Lanka’s folk heritage and seeks to establish more reliable information on the principal indigenous Sri Lankan folk dramatic forms and their characteristics. At the same time, by drawing connections between folk drama and the post-independence stylistic theatrical movement, the author demonstrates the essential role of the former in Sinhala culture prior to the advent of Western and other influences and shows how both continue to inflect Sri Lankan drama today. This book will help to open the field of South Asian drama studies to an audience consisting not only of scholars and students but also of general readers who are interested in the fields of drama and theatre and Asian studies.
Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226038223
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography.
Author : Richard Gombrich,Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691226859
In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka. As the Sinhalas themselves perceive it, Buddhism proper has always shared the religious arena with a spirit religion. While Buddhism concerns salvation, the spirit religion focuses on worldly welfare. Buddhism Transformed describes and analyzes the changes that have profoundly altered the character of Sinhala religion in both areas.
Author : John Clifford Holt,Jacob N. Kinnard,Jonathan S. Walters
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791487051
Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravāda communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.
Author : Muller,Carl
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 014341626X
Fictionalized account of the history of Sri Lanka from the earliest times; includes the spread and development of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
Author : Anne E. Monius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198032069
While Tamil-speaking South India is celebrated for its preservation of Hindu tradition, other religious communities have played a significant role in shaping the region's religious history. Among these non-Hindu communities is that of the Buddhists, who are little-understood because of the scarcity of remnants of Tamil-speaking Buddhist culture. Here, focusing on the two Buddhist texts in Tamil that are complete (a sixth-century poetic narrative and an eleventh-century treatise on grammar and poetics), Monius sheds light on the role of literature and literary culture in the formation, articulation, and evolution of religious identity and community.
Author : Hans Dieter Evers
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard F. Gombrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136156168
First published in 1995. This study is intended as a contribution to the empirical study of religion, and in particular to the study of religious change. Using empirical method of using documents, interviews and experiments the author tests his old hypotheses in order to formulate new ones that my lead him to the truth. He focusses on the distinctions used throughout this book, that are between what people say they believe and say they do, and what they really believe and really do, using his research of the Sinhalese Buddhists in Ceylon
Author : John Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity)
ISBN : 9780195064186
Sri Lanka has one of Asia's most pluralistic religious cultures. From a study of the changing role played by one Buddhist deity in Sinhala religious culture, the author of this study develops a thesis about the mechanism of religious change.
Author : Yijing
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8120807022
Author : Anita Spring
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468424003
This volume of essays grew out of a symposium organized by Judith Hoch-Smith and Anita Spring for the 1974 American Anthropological Association meetings in Mexico City. The two-part symposium was enti tled "Women in Ritual and Symbolic Systems: I. Midwives, Madonnas, and Mediums; ll. Prostitutes, Witches, and Androgynes. " The sym posium participants were asked to explore theological, ritual, and sym bolic aspects-both positive and negative-of the feminine cultural do main, using ethnographic materials with which they were familiar. The resulting papers have been revised, edited, and gathered together in Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles. The theoretical importance of these papers for the study of women's participation in culture and society rests on the assumption that reli gious ideas are paramount forces in social life, that relationships be tween the sexes, the nature of female sexuality, and the social and cul tural roles of women are in large part defined by religious ideas. That this proposition remains valid long after religion itself has ceased to be a living truth in the lives of many people can be seen from the tenacious ness of Judeo-Christian ideas about women in the contemporary West ern world. Both the expansion of life options for women and the creation of more positive cultural images of the female are intimately related to changes in the my tho-symbolic portraits that people carry around in their heads. These portraits are almost exclusively constructed from mythological and religious conceptions inherent in all facets of culture.