The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka

by John Clifford Holt

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195107578

ISBN13:9780195107579

Release Date:March 1996

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Asia Buddhism Electrical & Electronics Engineering History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Sri Lanka

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