The Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and Their Historical Development in Ceylon
Author : Wilhelm Geiger
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Wilhelm Geiger
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Buddhism
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Sri Lanka
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Author : Peter Reeves
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9814260835
Well over a million people of Sri Lankan origin live outside South Asia. The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this island. The volume is a joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, and Editions Didier Millet. It focuses on the relationship between culture and economy in the Sri Lanka diaspora in the context of globalisation, increased transnational culture flows and new communication technologies. In addition to the geographic mapping of the Sri Lanka diaspora in the various continents, thematic chapters include topics on “long distance nationalism”, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.
Author : Ronald Inden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0195352432
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers--"Orientalists"--and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in India and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1990-11-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226615981
This volume is the product of two decades of field research by one of Sri Lanka's distinguished anthropological interpreters.
Author : Stephen Berkwitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9047413474
The Index Buddhicus is the first classified comprehensive bibliography of Buddhist Studies. It describes secondary material ranging from articles, papers and chapters appearing in journals, proceedings and collections, through reference works, monographs, editions and theses, to digital resources. All entries are linked to an elaborate index of both proper names and thematic, and cross referenced to related material. The Index is available as an online resource.
Author : Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Library
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Kristin Scheible
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231542607
Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahavamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. Reading the Mahavamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas). Kristin Scheible argues that the Mahavamsa requires a particular kind of reading. In the text's proem, special instructions draw readers to the metaphor of light and the nagas, or salient snake-beings, of the first chapter. Nagas are both model worshippers and unworthy hoarders of Buddha's relics. As nonhuman agents, they challenge political and historicist readings of the text. Scheible sees these slippery characters and the narrative's potent and playful metaphors as techniques for refocusing the reader's attention on the text's emotional aims. Her work explains the Mahavamsa's central motivational role in contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist and nationalist circles. It also speaks broadly to strategies of reading religious texts and to the internal and external cues that give such works lives beyond the page.
Author : Mahānāma
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Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Kumari Jayawardena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113665707X
In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.