Author: Don M. de Z. Wickremasinghe
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Includes transliterated text of the inscriptions.
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Author: Don M. de Z. Wickremasinghe
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Includes transliterated text of the inscriptions.
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Includes transliterated text of the inscriptions.
Epigraphia Zeylanica: Being Lithic and Other Inscriptions of Ceylon
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Languages : en
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Rewriting Buddhism
Author: Alastair Gornall
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787355152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars. Faced with unprecedented uncertainty, the monastic community sought greater political autonomy, styled itself as royal court, and undertook a series of reforms, most notably, a purification and unification in 1165 during the reign of Parakramabahu I. He describes how central to the process of reform was the production of new forms of Pali literature, which helped create a new conceptual and social coherence within the reformed community; one that served to preserve and protect their religious tradition while also expanding its reach among the more fragmented and localized elites of the period.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787355152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars. Faced with unprecedented uncertainty, the monastic community sought greater political autonomy, styled itself as royal court, and undertook a series of reforms, most notably, a purification and unification in 1165 during the reign of Parakramabahu I. He describes how central to the process of reform was the production of new forms of Pali literature, which helped create a new conceptual and social coherence within the reformed community; one that served to preserve and protect their religious tradition while also expanding its reach among the more fragmented and localized elites of the period.
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Bibliotheca Orientalis
Author: Luzac &co
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Ceylon Historical Journal
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Catalogue of the Scientific Serial Publications in the Principal Libraries of Calcutta
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Contains the Society's Proceedings.
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Contains the Society's Proceedings.