Buddha in Sri Lanka : remembered yesterdays /
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.