Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, USA where he has taught for 20 years. His recent publications include The Awakened Ones: An Essay on the Phenomen…
Tooth Relic of the Buddha published in the year 1995 was published by Ministry of Buddhasasana, Government of Sri Lanka Department of Buddhist Affairs. View 8 more books by Ministry of Buddhasasana…
his book, 'Mahavanshaya' written in Sinhalese, is the historical story of Ceylon or ancient Sri Lanka. This book has been presented the history from the very first King of Ceylon, King Vijaya to 19…
Machine derived contents note: Foreword by Lal JayawardenarnAcknowledgmentsrnAbbreviationsrn1. Introduction: The Questionrn2. The Period of Buddhist Revivalism, 1860-1915rn3. Politics and Constitut…
Originally published: London; New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
The monograph consists of two parts, of which the first examines the Buddhist devotional practices, from the historical and canonical perspectives of the evolution of the worship of caitya, stupa, …
Theravada is the branch of Buddhism found in Sri Lanka and parts of South East Asia. The Buddha preached in north-east India in the fifth-century BC. He claimed that human beings are responsible fo…
This old classic by the doyen of Sri Lanka's Pali scholars surveys Sri Lanka's rich legacy of Pali literature. The book is also a gracefully written history of Sri Lankan Buddhism. 'Not likely ever…
One of the best loved and most hallowed and historic Buddhist shrines in Sri Lanka, the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihatraya is a unique treasure of epic Buddhist art of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twen…