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Buddhist History in the Vernacular - Stephen Berkwitz

Buddhist History in the Vernacular

The Power of the Past in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
Buch | Hardcover
360 Seiten
2004
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-13910-7 (ISBN)
CHF 219,95 inkl. MwSt
This book on vernacular Buddhist histories written in late medieval Sri Lanka demonstrates that narrative representations of the past were designed to effectively constructing new moral communities in translocal spaces.
This is a careful study about the power attributed to historical narratives in early medieval Sri Lanka. On the basis of Sinhala histories of the Buddha and his relics this work sheds new light on historiography at work in a vernacular setting. Arguing that historical texts were both ethically and socially constructive, the author demonstrates that narrative representations of the past served the purpose to transform writers, readers, and listeners of history into virtuous persons, and therewith to generate moral communities.
Focusing on the thirteenth-century Sinhala Thupavamsa, this book problematizes modern interpretations of Buddhist histories, compares the production of Pali and Sinhala texts, and examines how historical works were directed towards religious ends.
A significant contribution to scholarship in Buddhist Studies, Comparative Literature, and Historical Criticism.

Stephen C. Berkwitz, Ph.D. (1999) in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Southwest Missouri State University. He has written chiefly on the cultural history and contemporary expressions of Sri Lankan Buddhism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.4.2004
Reihe/Serie Brill's Indological Library ; 23
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 699 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 90-04-13910-9 / 9004139109
ISBN-13 978-90-04-13910-7 / 9789004139107
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