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 focusses 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 Sri succeeded 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, transla…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-535542-0
- EAN: 9780195355420
- Produktnummer: 13935284
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 17'004 KB
- Abbildungen: 34 b/w & 16 color photos, 3 linecuts, 1 maps
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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