Author: George TurnourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The First Twenty Chapters of the Mahawanso
Author: George TurnourMadras Journal of Literature and Science
Author: Catalogue of Works in the Oriental Languages Together with Polynesian & African
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India Company. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India CompanyList of Books Added to the Library of the University of Minnesota, April, 1878, to June, 1881. List No. 5
Author: University of Minnesota. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Buddhism in Tíbet. With an account of the Buddhist systems preceding it in India. With atlas of 20 plates
Author: Emil SchlagintweitLocations of Buddhism
Author: Anne M. BlackburnPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226055094
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborating with other Asian Buddhists, respond to colonial rule? To answer these questions, Anne M. Blackburn focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827–1911) to examine more broadly Buddhist life under foreign rule. In Locations of Buddhism, Blackburn reveals that during Sri Lanka’s crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization, there was a surprising stability in the central religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked. At the same time, they developed new institutions and forms of association, drawing on pre-colonial intellectual heritage as well as colonial-period technologies and discourse. Advocating a new way of studying the impact of colonialism on colonized societies, Blackburn is particularly attuned here to human experience, paying attention to the habits of thought and modes of affiliation that characterized individuals and smaller scale groups. Locations of Buddhism is a wholly original contribution to the study of Sri Lanka and the history of Buddhism more generally.
A Catalogue of Printed Books in European Languages in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society of BengalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Origins of Himalayan Studies
Author: David WaterhousePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134383630
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, ornithology and ethnography, critically examine Hodgson's life and achievement within the context of his contribution to scholarship. Many of the drawings photographed for this book have not previously been published.