Download or read book Alphabetical Guide to Sinhalese Folklore from Ballad Sources written by Lionel David Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical Guide to Sinhalese Folklore from Ballad Sources written by Lionel David Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical Guide to Sinhalese Folklore written by Lionel David Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical Guide to Sinhalese Folklore from Ballad Source written by Lionel David Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical Guide to Sinhalese Folklore from Ballad Sources Reprinted from the Indian Antiquary written by Lionel David Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Buddhist Vi u written by John Clifford Holt and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns, have shaped the shifting patterns of the veneration of Visnu in Sri Lanka. Holt begins with a comparative look at the assimilation of the Buddha in Hinduism. He then explores the role and rationale of medieval Sinhala kings in assimilating Visnu into Sinhala Buddhism. Offering analyses of texts, many of which have never before been translated into English, Holt considers the development of Visnu in Buddhist literature and the changing practices of deity veneration. Shifting to the present, Holt describes the efforts of contemporary Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka to discourage the veneration of Visnu, suggesting that many are motivated by a reactionary fear that their culture and society will soon be overrun by the influences and practices of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians.
Download or read book Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sinhalese Folklore Folk Religion and Folk Life written by Nandasēna Ratnapāla and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhist Precept Practice written by Richard F. Gombrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. This study is intended as a contribution to the empirical study of religion, and in particular to the study of religious change. Using empirical method of using documents, interviews and experiments the author tests his old hypotheses in order to formulate new ones that my lead him to the truth. He focusses on the distinctions used throughout this book, that are between what people say they believe and say they do, and what they really believe and really do, using his research of the Sinhalese Buddhists in Ceylon
Download or read book Catalogue of the Hugh Nevill Collection of Sinhalese Manuscripts in the British Library written by British Library and published by British Library. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh and final index volume in this catalogue, this marks the completion of one of the largest oriental cataloguing projects undertaken by the British Library this century. It documents the whole Hugh Nevill collection of over 2000 texts, which are not only of relevance to Sinhalese Buddhist literature, but more widely to the social and intellectual history of the later Theravadin tradition in Sri Lanka.
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Download or read book Islanded written by Sujit Sivasundaram and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Download or read book The Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies New Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monks Priests and Peasants written by Hans Dieter Evers and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legacy of Stylistic Theatre in the Creation of a Modern Sinhala Drama in Sri Lanka written by Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era. Bulathsinghala examines the impact of indigenous and imported folk theatrical forms on the work of the most significant postcolonial stylistic dramatists and on key plays that they produced. In the process, the book explores a number of myths and misunderstandings regarding Sri Lanka’s folk heritage and seeks to establish more reliable information on the principal indigenous Sri Lankan folk dramatic forms and their characteristics. At the same time, by drawing connections between folk drama and the post-independence stylistic theatrical movement, the author demonstrates the essential role of the former in Sinhala culture prior to the advent of Western and other influences and shows how both continue to inflect Sri Lankan drama today. This book will help to open the field of South Asian drama studies to an audience consisting not only of scholars and students but also of general readers who are interested in the fields of drama and theatre and Asian studies.
Download or read book The Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register written by John M. Senaveratna and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
