Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789555774642
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages :
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Census of Population and Housing, 2001, Sri Lanka: Matale District report
National Accounts of Sri Lanka
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ISBN:
Category : Gross national product
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Attracting the Heart
Author: Jeffrey SamuelsPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860624
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately, the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion, a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human feeling—love, hate, jealousy, ambition—while relating to other monks and the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Samuels takes an unprecedented look at how emotion determines and influences the commitments that laypeople and monastics make to each other and to the Buddhist religion in general. By focusing on "multimoment" histories, Samuels highlights specific junctures in which ideas about recruitment, vocation, patronage, and institution-building are dynamically negotiated and refined. Positing a nexus between aesthetics and affect, he illustrates not only how aesthetic responses trigger certain emotions, but also how personal and shared emotions, at the local level, shape notions of beauty. Samuels uses the voices of informants to reveal the delicately negotiated character of lay-monastic relations and temple management. In the fields of religion and Buddhist studies there has been a growing recognition of the need to examine affective dimensions of religion. His work breaks new ground in that it answers questions about Buddhist emotions and the constitutive roles they play in social life and religious practice through a close, poignant look at small-scale temple and social networks. Throughout, Samuels makes the case for the need to account for emotions in making intelligible the behavior of religious participants and practitioners. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork that includes numerous interviews as well as an examination of written and visual sources, Attracting the Heart conveys the manner in which Buddhists describe their own histories, experiences, and encounters as they relate to the formation and continuation of Buddhist monastic culture in contemporary Sri Lanka. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion, Buddhist studies, anthropology, and South and Southeast Asian studies.
Annual Survey of Construction Industries
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ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Developing Countries
Author: Atsushi MakiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317444795
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
There are many problems regarding poverty, inequality and growth in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Policy makers at the national level and at international institutions such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and others have implemented various policies in order to decrease poverty and inequality. This book provides empirical observations on Asian countries and Africa. Each chapter provides theoretical and empirical analysis on regional case studies with an emphasis on policy implications. The book will be of use to many who wish to assess and improve policies in developing countries and mitigate poverty and inequality, and stimulate growth, by drawing on relevant empirical research and economic theories. Clearly, there have been numerous policy failures and the book aims to provide a basis for improving policies and outcomes based on relevant empirical observations.
Population Statistics of Sri Lanka
Author: Economic & Social Statistics of Sri Lanka
Author: Srī Laṅkā Maha Băṅkuva. Saṅkhyālēkhana DepārtamēntuvaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Census of Agriculture--2002, Sri Lanka: Matale District
Author: Ilaṅkait Tēcīya Nūr̲paṭṭiyal
Author: Labour Statistics
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ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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