Glimpses Of Sri Lankan Buddhism
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Glimpses of Sri Lankan Buddhism
Author | : D. C. Ahir |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : UVA:X004516708 |
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Contributed articles.
The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka
Author | : George Doherty Bond |
Publsiher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 8120810473 |
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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.
Sri Lanka Glimpses of an Island Culture
Author | : Leelananda Prematilleka,Chandra Wikramagamage |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : MINN:31951P01080157Q |
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Cultural history of Sri Lanka.
The Work of Kings
Author | : H. L. Seneviratne |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226748650 |
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The Work of Kings is a stunning new look at the turbulent modern history and sociology of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Monkhood and its effects upon contemporary society. Using never-before translated Sinhalese documents and extensive interviews with monks, Sri Lankan anthropologist H.L. Seneviratne unravels the inner workings of this New Buddhism and the ideology on which it is based. Beginning with Anagarika Dharmapala's "rationalization" of Buddhism in the early twentieth century, which called for monks to take on a more activist role in the community, Seneviratne shows how the monks have gradually revised their role to include involvement in political and economic spheres. The altruistic, morally pure monks of Dharamapala's dreams have become, Seneviratne trenchantly argues, self-centered and arrogant, concealing self-aggrandizement behind a façade of "social service." A compelling call for reform and a forceful analysis, The Work of Kings is essential to anthropologists, historians of religion, and those interested in colonialism, nationalism, and postcolonial politics.
Ravanisation The Revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Post War Sri Lanka
Author | : Deborah de Koning |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783643915047 |
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This book discusses Ravanisation: the revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in post-war (after 2009) Sri Lanka. The Hindu Ramayana generally portrays Ravana as a cruel king. How and why, then, has Ravana gained the interest of Sinhalese Buddhists? This study takes an ethnographic perspective to answer these questions. The book discusses multiple Ravana representations that have emerged at an urban Buddhist site (the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya) and a rural site (Lakegala), and discloses how Ravanisation relates to Sinhalese Buddhist ethno-nationalism. In addition, the material, ritual, and spatial perspectives offer unique insights in the personal and local relevance of Ravana.
In the Footstep of the Buddha
Author | : Ashvajit Dharmachari |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781291782479 |
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In the footstep of the Buddha is a collection of letters written whilst the author was based in Sri Lanka from 1986-90. They describe the phenomenon of ethnic Buddhism, as witnessed during the author's visits to temples and forest hermitages and his meetings with monks, laymen and laywomen in town and country. We learn of the author's practicing and teaching the principles of individual spiritual evolution, and meet the flora and fauna of the lush tropical landscape. We catch occasional glimpses of the civil war that sorely troubled the Island during those years. The author also tells of his visits to India during the same period, and of the new Buddhist Movement unfolding there some forty years after the great Mass Conversion to Buddhism inaugurated by Dr Ambedkar in Nagpur in 1956.
Locations of Buddhism
Author | : Anne M. Blackburn |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226055091 |
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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.
Popularizing Buddhism
Author | : Mahinda Deegalle |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791481028 |
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Explores the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching.