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The Religious World of Kirti Sri - Buddhism, Art and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka (Hardcover)
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The Religious World of Kirti Sri - Buddhism, Art and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka (Hardcover)
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In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to
uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning
years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing
Buddhist culture. Holt focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and
how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a
deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he
successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt
demonstrates, Kirti Sri succeeded in formulating his vision of an
orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of
monastic sanha and re-establishing traditional lines of ordination,
translating the Pali suttas into Sinhala, sponsoring public
Buddhist religious rites, and refurbishing almost all Buddhist
temples in the Kandyan culture region. The ultimate aim of Holt's
study is to describe and interpret Kirti Sri's articulation of a
normative Buddhist world, the essentials of which remain normative
for many Buddhists in the Kandyan region of Sri Lanka today.
Scholars and students will find The Religious World of Kirti Sri is
an indispensable resource for the understanding of orthodox
Buddhism at this important historical juncture, as well as the
present day.
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