Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka

by John Clifford Holt

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Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195064186

ISBN13:9780195064186

Release Date:January 1991

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"

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Administration & Medicine Economics Buddhism Public Health Religion Religion & Spirituality

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