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Buddha in Sri Lanka - Swarna Wickremeratne

Buddha in Sri Lanka

Remembered Yesterdays
Buch | Softcover
317 Seiten
2006
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-6882-1 (ISBN)
CHF 54,90 inkl. MwSt
Combining memoir, history, and present-day narrative, this book describes how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka.
This book provides both an erudite and intimate look at how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka. While India is known as the birthplace of Buddhism, Sri Lanka is its other home; Buddhism extends back over twenty-five hundred years on the island and remains at the center of its spiritual traditions and culture.

Throughout the book, author Swarna Wickremeratne incorporates a personal view, sharing stories of herself, her family, friends, and acquaintances as they "lived Buddhism" both during her Sri Lankan girlhood and during more recent times. This personal view makes the traditions come alive as Wickremeratne details Buddhist beliefs, customs, rituals and ceremonies, and folklore. She also provides a fascinating discussion of the Sangha, the institutional monkhood in Sri Lanka, including its history, codes of conduct, and evolution and resilience over time. Wickremeratne explores the recent attempts by many monks to reinvent themselves in a society characterized by secularization, globalization, and a tide of aggressive Christian evangelization.

Swarna Wickremeratne is a librarian at Oakton Community College and an independent scholar.

Foreword
Terminology and Related Concepts
Acknowledgments
Map

1. Beginnings and Looking Beyond

2. Growing up in Sri Lankan Culture

3. Festival of New Beginnings: The New Year

4. Loving Worship and Loving Kindness

5. Givers: Many Motives, Many Fruits

6. Sri Lankan Buddhists and Their Rituals

7. Reminiscences of Bana Preaching

8. Buddhist Pilgrims’ Progress

9. Karma in Popular Buddhist Culture

10. To Die Only to Be Reborn

11. Death: Buddhist Ways and Other Ways

12. Bodhi Puja: All for the Sake of a Tree

13. Pirit Chanting and the Holy Thread

14. Sons of the Buddha

15. Varieties in a Single Saffron Robe

16. Quid Pro Quo Worship

17. Many Gods, Many Altars

18. God Kataragama

Epilogue
Glossary of Religious Terms
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.9.2006
Vorwort George D. Bond
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 445 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 0-7914-6882-8 / 0791468828
ISBN-13 978-0-7914-6882-1 / 9780791468821
Zustand Neuware
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