Author: James De Alwis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sinhalese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Survey of Sinhala Literature
Author: James De Alwis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sinhalese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sinhalese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Sidath Sangarawa
Author: James De Alwis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sinhalese language
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sinhalese language
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A Lasting Vision
Author: Yigal Bronner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197642926
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature (Kavyadarsa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE), and to the treatise's remarkable career throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and translated into several languages spoken on the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and on the Island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all these receiving cultures it became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era. It also travelled to Burma and Thailand, where it held a place of honor in Buddhist monastic education and intellectual life, and likely to the islands of Java and Bali, where it contributed to the production of literature in Old Javanese. There is even reason to believe that it reached China and impacted Chinese literary culture, although far more peripherally than in other parts of Asia. It also maintained a prominent position in Sanskrit learned discourses throughout the Indian subcontinent for at least a millennium. This multi-authored volume, organized by region and language, is the first attempt to chart and explain the Mirror's amazing transregional and multilingual success: what was so unique about this work that might explain its near-continental conquest, how was it transmitted to and received in these different environments, and what happened to it whenever it was being adopted and adapted.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197642926
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature (Kavyadarsa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE), and to the treatise's remarkable career throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and translated into several languages spoken on the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and on the Island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all these receiving cultures it became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era. It also travelled to Burma and Thailand, where it held a place of honor in Buddhist monastic education and intellectual life, and likely to the islands of Java and Bali, where it contributed to the production of literature in Old Javanese. There is even reason to believe that it reached China and impacted Chinese literary culture, although far more peripherally than in other parts of Asia. It also maintained a prominent position in Sanskrit learned discourses throughout the Indian subcontinent for at least a millennium. This multi-authored volume, organized by region and language, is the first attempt to chart and explain the Mirror's amazing transregional and multilingual success: what was so unique about this work that might explain its near-continental conquest, how was it transmitted to and received in these different environments, and what happened to it whenever it was being adopted and adapted.
Sri Lanka's Development Since Independence
Author: W. D. Lakshman
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781560727842
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Social, political, economic and constitutional developments are considered as well as the evolution of science and arts in the development process. This is in accordance with the Sri Lankan tradition of seeing the world as a connected whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781560727842
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Social, political, economic and constitutional developments are considered as well as the evolution of science and arts in the development process. This is in accordance with the Sri Lankan tradition of seeing the world as a connected whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Modernizing Composition
Author: Garrett Field
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520294718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India’s relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520294718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India’s relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India.
Pain and Its Ending
Author: Carol Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113681325X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger network of Buddha's teachings. Their unique nature rests in their function as a proposition and as a symbol in the Theravada canon.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113681325X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger network of Buddha's teachings. Their unique nature rests in their function as a proposition and as a symbol in the Theravada canon.
From the Cradle
Author: D. C. Ranatunga
Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Anthropologist and the Native
Author: H. L. Seneviratne
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857284355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
This book is a collection of 20 essays by international scholars collated in honor of Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, whose writings have contributed to the fields of South Asian studies and anthropology.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857284355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
This book is a collection of 20 essays by international scholars collated in honor of Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, whose writings have contributed to the fields of South Asian studies and anthropology.
Ceylon and Her People
Author: Fijjik
Publisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description