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Author_Gombrich
Author_Richard F. Gombrich
belief versus behaviour
Bo Trees
Buddha Image
Buddhist Theosophical Society
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Chief Monk
Dasa Sil
Dead Man
empirical religious studies
empirical study of Sinhalese Buddhism
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ethnographic fieldwork
Gotama Buddha
Goyigama Caste
Local Animism
Low Caste Person
Low Country Sinhalese
Madame Tussaud's Chamber
Madame Tussaud’s Chamber
Modern Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
Noble Eight-fold Path
Pali Canon
Pali Verses
Poya Day
religious syncretism research
ritual practice analysis
Sinhalese Buddhist
Sinhalese Buddhist Culture
Sinhalese Commentaries
Sinhalese Society
Sri Lankan anthropology
Ten Perfections
Ten Precepts
Twelve Gods
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780710304445
- Weight: 980g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 1995
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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
