Mahavamsa
Download Mahavamsa full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Mahavamsa ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Mahanama Thera |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2018-01-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781983960444 |
The Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle" )(5th century CE) is an epic poem written in the Pali language of the ancient Kings of Sri Lanka. It relates the history of Sri Lanka from its legendary beginnings up to the reign of Mahasena of Anuradhapura (A.D. 302) covering the period between the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India in 543 BCE to his reign (277-304 CE). It was composed by a Buddhist bhikku at the Mahavihara temple in Anuradhapura about the sixth century A.D.
| Author | : Mahānāma |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 675 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : Buddhism |
| ISBN | : 9788180902451 |
The Mahavamsa is a famous historical treatise in Buddhism, written by Mahanama in Pali language. It deserves a special notice on aacount of its being so highly important for the religious history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) . The literary questions connected with Mahavamsa & the development of the historical tradition in Sri Lanka have been thoroughly discussed in this text. However, the great importance of Mahavamsa as an historical work, which helped to settle the conflicting & confusing dates of Indian history, is so well established that a dissertation on the subject would seem superfluous. The specific feature of this edition is that it contains original Pali text with revised English translation. Besides, the work is also appendices. Hope, this new edition of its kind will duly help the young researches as well as readers of pali and buddhism to understand the real importance of this old historical text.
| Author | : Wilhelm Geiger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Buddhism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1879 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Walter Nubin |
| Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781590335734 |
This book provides an overview of the development of a small country, which on the one hand, is unique, and on the other hand, is also an interesting reflection and microcosm of the global economy. Sri Lanka's development is one of the contrasts, complicated by social conflicts and ethnic tensions. Social, political, economic and constitutional developments are considered. This is in accordance with the Sri Lankan tradition of seeing the world as a connected whole. The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) is an island in the Indian Ocean approximately 18 miles off the south-eastern coast of India with a population of about 19 million. Density is highest in the south-west where Colombo, the country's main port and industrial centre, is located. Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. Sri Lanka follows a non-aligned foreign policy. It participates in multilateral diplomacy, particularly at the United Nations, where it seeks to promote sovereignty, independence, and development in the developing world.
| Author | : Mahānāma |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1148 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Buddhism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tessa J. Bartholomeusz |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2005-07-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113578857X |
This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. An important contribution to the understanding of the power of religion to create both peace and war.
| Author | : Gananath Obeyesekere |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2017-08-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351592254 |
This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. Gananath Obeyesekere, one of the foremost analytical voices from South Asia develops Freud’s notion of ‘dream work’, the ‘work of culture’ and ideas of no-self (anatta) to understand Buddhism in contemporary Sri Lanka. This work offers a restorative interpretation of Buddhist myths in contrast to the perspective involving deconstruction. The book deals with a range of themes connected with Buddhism, including oral traditions and stories, the religious pantheon, philosophy, emotions, reform movements, questions of identity and culture, and issues of modernity. This fascinating volume will greatly interest students, teachers and researchers of religion and philosophy, especially Buddhism, ethics, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, Sri Lanka and modern South Asian history.
| Author | : Dominick LaCapra |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801498862 |
Dominick LaCapra calls for a new view of intellectual history--one that will revitalize the importance of reading and interpreting significant texts. In ten essays, he reformulates the problem of the relation between the "great" texts of the Western tradition and their contexts. Seeking to refine "context" into a concept useful to historical research, LaCapra urges intellectual historians to learn from lessons and developments in contemporary literary criticism and philosophy, fields that have undertaken a radical reassessment of the reading of texts.
| Author | : Tessa J. Bartholomeusz |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1998-07-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0791495868 |
Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka explores Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist ideology and its power to shape the identities of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities. Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalists in contemporary Sri Lanka share an ideology that asserts a vital link between the island of Sri Lanka and the Sinhala people, especially in their role as curators of Buddhism, and often at the exclusion of the minorities. Minority responses to Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism are manifold, ranging from assimilation to the formation of rival fundamentalisms. The authors provide views of history markedly different from most scholarly reflections on Sri Lanka; thus, the history of shifting perceptions of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism offered here constitutes an important contribution to the subaltern history of Sri Lanka. By treating both the development of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism in the late nineteenth century and its hegemony in the late twentieth, this study links the present to the past.
