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Asoka's Inscriptions
Asoka’s Inscriptions
Author_Richard F. Gombrich
Brahminical Ideology
Buddha's Day
Buddha's Death
Buddha’s Day
Buddha’s Death
buddhist
Buddhist monastic discipline
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Colombo Municipal Council
communal
Communal Religion
comparative religious sociology
Early Vedic Period
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Gotama Buddha
Higher Ordination
Holy Men
Kandyan Provinces
lanka
Maha Bodhi Society
nationalism
Ordination Tradition
Pali canon studies
pit
Protestant Buddhism
Rains Retreat
religion
religious syncretism
rhys
ritual practice analysis
Scare Crows
sinhalese
Sinhalese Buddhist
Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
social transformation in Buddhist communities
South Asian religious history
Spence Hardy
sri
St Thomas Aquinas
Tamil Nadu
Tissa Moggaliputta
Uposatha Ceremony
Vice Versa
vinaya
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415365086
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over the date of the Buddha and current social and political developments in Sri Lanka. Gombrich explores the legacy of the Buddha's predecessors and the social and religious contexts against which Buddhism has developed and changed throughout history, demonstrating above all, how it has always influenced and been influenced by its social surroundings in a way which continues to this day.
Richard F. Gombrich is Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, and one of the most renowned Buddhist scholars in the world. From 1976 to 2004 he was Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford. He has been President of the Pali Text Society and was awarded the Sri Lanka Ranjana decoration by the President of Sri Lanka in 1994 and the SC Chakraborty medal by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta the previous year. He has written extensively on Buddhism, including How Buddhism Began: the Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings (Routledge 2005); and with Gananath Obeyesekere, Buddhism transformed: Religious change in Sri Lanka (1988).
