The Religious World of Kirti Sri
Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focuses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demonstrates, Kirti Srisucceeded in formulating his vision of an orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of monastic sanha and re-establishing traditional lines of ordination, translati…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-510757-9
- EAN: 9780195107579
- Produktnummer: 22685330
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 156 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.1 cm 282 g
- Abbildungen: 8 pp colour and 32 pp black and white plates, line figures
- Gewicht: 282
Über den Autor
John Clifford Holt is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College, where he organized and founded the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program. Dr. Holt has authored several books including Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka (OUP, 1991).
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