wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780195097054 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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443,65 zł |
Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780791456927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravada Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravada communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what...
Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravada Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the p...
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139,28 zł |
The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780195107579 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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...
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous...
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360,11 zł |
Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780195064186 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis...
Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines...
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792,54 zł |
In Search of Justice in Thailand's Deep South: Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women's Narratives
ISBN: 9780813948737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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585,85 zł |
Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780190624378 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the civil war in Sri Lanka between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamils ended in 2009, many Sri Lankans and foreign observers alike hoped to see the re-establishment of relatively harmonious religious and ethnic relations among the various communities in the country. Instead, a different type of violence erupted, this time aimed at the Muslim community. The essays in Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities investigate the history and current state of Buddhist-Muslim relations in Sri Lanka, in an attempt to identify the causes of this newly emergent conflict. Euro-American readers...
When the civil war in Sri Lanka between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamils ended in 2009, many Sri Lankans and foreign observers alike hoped to see the re-e...
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669,69 zł |
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822349822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 798 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country s multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails...
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island...
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145,18 zł |
In Search of Justice in Thailand's Deep South: Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women's Narratives
ISBN: 9780813948744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,57 zł |
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822349679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country s multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails...
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island...
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580,94 zł |
Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780190624385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the civil war in Sri Lanka between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamils ended in 2009, many Sri Lankans and foreign observers alike hoped to see the re-establishment of relatively harmonious religious and ethnic relations among the various communities in the country. Instead, a different type of violence erupted, this time aimed at the Muslim community. The essays in Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities investigate the history and current state of Buddhist-Muslim relations in Sri Lanka, in an attempt to identify the causes of this newly emergent conflict. Euro-American readers...
When the civil war in Sri Lanka between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamils ended in 2009, many Sri Lankans and foreign observers alike hoped to see the re-e...
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210,18 zł |