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Buddhism and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka / Patrick Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Patrick, 1941-
- Series:
- SUNY series in religious studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist renewal--Sri Lanka.
- Buddhist renewal.
- Nationalism--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Nationalism.
- Ethnic conflict--Sri Lanka.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Sri Lanka.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 146 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part I Reading Buddhism
- Chapter 1 Vedic Tradition and the Buddha: How to Say the Unsayable 3
- Chapter 2 Buddhism: The Art of the Detached Agonist 17
- Part II Reading Sri Lanka
- Chapter 3 Sri Lanka: Buddhist Self-Representation and the Genesis of the Modern Conflict 45
- Chapter 4 Anagarika Dharmapala: Buddhism, Science, and the Crisis of Historical Imagination 67
- Chapter 5 Walpola Rahula and Gamini Salgado: Buddhism, Dialogue, and the Political Imaginary 81
- Chapter 6 J. R. Jayewardene: Playing with Fire 97.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791493533
- 0791493539
- OCLC:
- 226304706
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