Download or read book Buddhism Primitive and Present in Magadha and in Ceylon written by Reginald Stephen Copleston and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Locations of Buddhism written by Anne M. Blackburn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborating with other Asian Buddhists, respond to colonial rule? To answer these questions, Anne M. Blackburn focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827–1911) to examine more broadly Buddhist life under foreign rule. In Locations of Buddhism, Blackburn reveals that during Sri Lanka’s crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization, there was a surprising stability in the central religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked. At the same time, they developed new institutions and forms of association, drawing on pre-colonial intellectual heritage as well as colonial-period technologies and discourse. Advocating a new way of studying the impact of colonialism on colonized societies, Blackburn is particularly attuned here to human experience, paying attention to the habits of thought and modes of affiliation that characterized individuals and smaller scale groups. Locations of Buddhism is a wholly original contribution to the study of Sri Lanka and the history of Buddhism more generally.

Download or read book Buddhism Betrayed written by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka—given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy—are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.

Download or read book The Mah va sa Or the Great Chronicle of Ceylon written by Mahānāma and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ceylon Buddhism written by Daniel John Gogerly and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka written by George Doherty Bond and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, Theravada Buddhists in Sri Lanka and throughout Southeast Asia celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha`s entry into Nirvana and of the establishment of the Buddhist tradition. This book examines this revival of Theravada Buddhism among the laity of Sri Lanka, analysing its origins and its growth up to the present-day. Within the spectrum of reinterpretations that have comprised the revival, the book focuses on four important types or patterns of reinterpretation and response. It examines the rational reformism of the early Protestant Buddhists led by Anagarika Dharmapala and the conservative neotraditionalism of the Jayanti period.Particular attention is given to two of the most recent and dynamic reforms, the insight meditation movement, breaking with tradition, has opened the path of meditation to lay people, enabling them to seek Nirvana without renouncing the world. The sarvodaya Shramadana movement has addressed the social context, reinterpreting the Buddhist heritage to derive authentic forms of Buddhist social development. Comprising this series of interpretations and options for lay Buddhists, the Buddhist revival represents a new gradual path to Nirvana.

Download or read book Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ceylon Buddhism Forewords Biographical note On transmigration Dhammapada The power of truth The virtue of alms giving Pirit Brahmajaia sutta The discourse respecting Ratthapais Culla kamma vibbanga sutta Patta kamman A discourse to some inhabitants of Ver nja Maha dhamma Samadana sutta Sig lo vada Selections from the Jatakas Maha satipotihanana sutta Appendix written by Daniel John Gogerly and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State of Buddhism in Ceylon Srila k as Depicted in the Pali Chronicles written by Sandhya Bhattacharya and published by Pilgrims. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to trace the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka as depicted in the Pali lanaguage chronicles which date from the 4th century BC onwards. Describes about Vamsa Literature, short history of the Pali chronicles, royal patronage of buddhism, monastic life in ceylon, buddhist festivals and ceremonies in ceylon.

Download or read book Memoir on the History of the Tooth relic of Ceylon written by Joseph Gerson Da Cunha and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 112 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 439 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 The Mah vansi the R j ratn cari and the R j vali written by Edward Upham and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Buddhism in Ceylon written by Walpola Rāhula and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Chronicles of Ceylon written by Bimala Churn Law and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1994 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buddhism Transformed written by Richard Gombrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka. As the Sinhalas themselves perceive it, Buddhism proper has always shared the religious arena with a spirit religion. While Buddhism concerns salvation, the spirit religion focuses on worldly welfare. Buddhism Transformed describes and analyzes the changes that have profoundly altered the character of Sinhala religion in both areas.

Download or read book Buddhist Popular Lectures Delivered in Ceylon in 1907 written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buddhism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka written by Patrick Grant and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Grant explores the relationship between Buddhism and violent ethnic conflict in modern Sri Lanka using the concept of "regressive inversion." Regressive inversion occurs when universal teaching, such as that of the Buddha, is redeployed to supercharge passions associated with the kinds of group loyalty that the universal teaching itself intends to transcend. The book begins with an account of the main teachings of Theravada Buddhism and looks at how these inform, or fail to inform, modern interpreters. Grant considers the writings of three key figures—Anagarika Dharmapala, Walpola Rahula, and J. R. Jayewardene—who addressed Buddhism and politics in the years leading up to Sri Lanka's political independence from Britain, and subsequently, in postcolonial Sri Lanka. This book makes the Sri Lankan conflict accessible to readers interested in the modern global phenomenon of ethnic violence involving religion and also illuminates similar conflicts around the world.