Download or read book Ancient City Polonnaruwa written by Becky Walters Czlapinski and published by Becky Walters Czlapinski. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan and navigate your trip to the UNESCO World Heritage city Polonnaruwa. Sections on Sri Lankan Buddhism, Hinduism and architectural terms enhances your informed experience.
Download or read book Sacred Island written by Shravasti Dhammika and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This travel and pilgrimage guidebook is meant primarily for Buddhists or those interested in Buddhism who wish to explore Sri Lanka’s rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the island, the author weaves together archaeological findings, art history and the stories and legends of the Buddhist tradition to bring to life thirty-three places of religious significance.
Download or read book Polonnaruva Medieval Capital of Sri Lanka written by Anuradha Seneviratna and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peaceful War written by Patrick Mendis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peaceful War is an epic analysis of the unfolding drama between the clashing forces of the Chinese dream and American destiny. Just as the American experiment evolved, Deng Xiaoping’s China has been using “Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends” and borrowed the idea of the American Dream as a model for China’s rise. The Chinese dream, as reinvented by President Xi Jinping, continues Deng’s experiment into the twenty-first century. With a possible “fiscal cliff” in America and a “social cliff” in China, the author revisits the history of Sino-American relations to explore the prospects for a return to the long-forgotten Beijing-Washington love affair launched in the trade-for-peace era. President Barack Obama’s Asia pivot strategy and the new Silk Road plan of President Xi could eventually create a pacific New World Order of peace and prosperity for all. The question is: will China ultimately evolve into a democratic nation by rewriting the American Dream in Chinese characters, and how might this transpire?
Download or read book River of Ink written by Paul M.M. Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king, lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet, furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he commissions Asanka to translate a holy Sanskrit epic into the Tamil language spoken by his recently acquired subjects. The poem will be an olive branch--a symbol of unity between the two cultures. But in different languages, in different contexts, meaning can become slippery. First inadvertently, then deliberately and dangerously, Asanka's version of the epic, centered on the killing of an unjust ruler, inspires and arouses the oppressed people of the land. Asanka must juggle the capricious demands of a king with the growing demands of his own political consciousness--and his heart--if he wishes to survive and imagine a future with the woman he loves. The first novel from a remarkable young writer, River of Ink is a powerful historical tale set in the shadow of oppression--one with deep allegorical resonances in any time--celebrating the triumph of literature and love.
Download or read book The Mouse Charmers written by Anuradha Goyal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of Internet has been a significant gamechanger for our generation. Mouse Charmers are a new breed of entrepreneurs in emerging India powered by the Internet and the opportunities that it offers to create new markets and to cater to old markets in new ways. Some of them have already achieved success where they can be called iconic and inspiring while others have powerful ideas that put them on the same path. Anuradha Goyal tells the stories of digital entrepreneurs like Flipkart, Zomato, ImagesBazaar, IndiBlogger; how they started out, the innovations and technologies involved, their business models, and unique marketing strategies. Inspiring and useful, The Mouse Charmers is an essential guide for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Elephant Complex written by John Gimlette and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling curiosity for the inside story. This time, he travels to Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Delving deep into the nation’s story, Gimlette provides us with an astonishing, multifaceted portrait of the island today. His travels reveal the country as never before. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo (“a hint of anarchy everywhere”), he ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island’s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the “Bible Belt” of Buddhism—the tsunami-ravaged southeast coast; then up into the great green highlands (“the garden in the sky”) and Kandy, the country’s eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la. Along the way, a wild and often desperate history takes shape, a tale of great colonies (Arab, Portuguese, British, and Dutch) and of the cultural divisions that still divide this society. Before long, we’re in Jaffna and the Vanni, crucibles of the recent conflict. These areas—the hottest, driest, and least hospitable—have been utterly devastated by war and are only now struggling to their feet. But this is also a story of friendship and remarkable encounters. In the course of his journey, Gimlette meets farmers, war heroes, ancient tribesmen, world-class cricketers, terrorists, a former president, old planters, survivors of great massacres—and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That’s to say nothing of the island’s beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth. Here is a land of extravagant beauty and profound devastation, of ingenuity and catastrophe, possessed of both a volatile past and an uncertain future—a place capable of being at once heavenly and hellish—all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page.
Download or read book A Royal Library written by Kungliga Biblioteket (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culavamsa written by and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1996 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical work on the political and religious history of Sri Lanka.
Download or read book Guide to Polonnaruwa written by Abeyratna Banda Abeysinghe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sigiriya Museum written by Senake Bandaranayake and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Knowledge of Good Evil written by Glenn Kleier and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defrocked priest embarks on an epic odyssey through the afterlife in search of answers to life's Ultimate Question. O"The Knowledge of Good and Evil" is a tough, savory, formidable thriller layered with plenty of angst and adventure.O--"New York Times"-bestselling author Steve Barry.
Download or read book Glittering Gem of the Indian Ocean written by Shrikant Deodhar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every tourist place in Sri Lanka is a blazing gem. Sri Lanka tourism is a radiant necklace of these gems. A majority of tourists don't have detailed information about these destinations, their visits become more like "touch and go”. This book enables one to enjoy the real beauty of these places and understand their background. The book covers a lot of information and interesting details about these tourist attractions. This guidebook is your friend during your entire Sri Lanka trip. This invisible personal guide will explain every tourist place in detail with a personal touch. All necessary information will be at your fingertips. You may also save 10 times more than the price of this book due to the guidelines given. When one returns from their Sri Lanka tour, they will be able to guide their friends and relatives to plan future tours with the help of this book.
Download or read book The Sacred City of Anuradhapura written by Walisinha Harischandra and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commercial Providence written by Patrick Mendis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is behind the success of America? Does America manifest its destiny by other means? Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty.' The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum.
Download or read book Man of Dialogue written by Gregory K. Hillis and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Catholic was Thomas Merton? Since his death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his commitment to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and by those who admire Merton as a thinker but see him as an aberration who rebelled against his Catholicism to articulate ideas that went against the church. In this book, Gregory K. Hillis illustrates that Merton’s thought was intertwined with his identity as a Catholic priest and emerged out of a thorough immersion in the church’s liturgical, theological, and spiritual tradition. In addition to providing a substantive introduction to Merton’s life and thought, this book illustrates that Merton was fundamentally shaped by his identity as a Roman Catholic.
