The Mahavamsa
Author: Thera Mahanama-sthavira
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0895819066
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The Mahavamsa
Author: Mahanama Thera
Publisher:
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781983960444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle" )(5th century CE) is an epic poem written in the Pali language of the ancient Kings of Sri Lanka. It relates the history of Sri Lanka from its legendary beginnings up to the reign of Mahasena of Anuradhapura (A.D. 302) covering the period between the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India in 543 BCE to his reign (277-304 CE). It was composed by a Buddhist bhikku at the Mahavihara temple in Anuradhapura about the sixth century A.D.
Mahavamsa
Author: Mahānāma
Publisher:
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 9788180902451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mahavamsa is a famous historical treatise in Buddhism, written by Mahanama in Pali language. It deserves a special notice on aacount of its being so highly important for the religious history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) . The literary questions connected with Mahavamsa & the development of the historical tradition in Sri Lanka have been thoroughly discussed in this text. However, the great importance of Mahavamsa as an historical work, which helped to settle the conflicting & confusing dates of Indian history, is so well established that a dissertation on the subject would seem superfluous. The specific feature of this edition is that it contains original Pali text with revised English translation. Besides, the work is also appendices. Hope, this new edition of its kind will duly help the young researches as well as readers of pali and buddhism to understand the real importance of this old historical text.
The Dîpavaṃsa
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and Their Historical Development in Ceylon
Author: Wilhelm Geiger
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka
Author: Mahānāma
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking Intellectual History
Author: Dominick LaCapra
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780801498862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDominick LaCapra calls for a new view of intellectual history--one that will revitalize the importance of reading and interpreting significant texts. In ten essays, he reformulates the problem of the relation between the "great" texts of the Western tradition and their contexts. Seeking to refine "context" into a concept useful to historical research, LaCapra urges intellectual historians to learn from lessons and developments in contemporary literary criticism and philosophy, fields that have undertaken a radical reassessment of the reading of texts.
Buddhism Betrayed?
Author: Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992-07-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0226789500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Buddhist Viṣṇu
Author: John Clifford Holt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9788120832695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns, have shaped the shifting patterns of the veneration of Visnu in Sri Lanka. Holt begins with a comparative look at the assimilation of the Buddha in Hinduism. He then explores the role and rationale of medieval Sinhala kings in assimilating Visnu into Sinhala Buddhism. Offering analyses of texts, many of which have never before been translated into English, Holt considers the development of Visnu in Buddhist literature and the changing practices of deity veneration. Shifting to the present, Holt describes the efforts of contemporary Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka to discourage the veneration of Visnu, suggesting that many are motivated by a reactionary fear that their culture and society will soon be overrun by the influences and practices of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians.
