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Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka |
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Author |
Holt, John Clifford (著)=Holt, John (au.)
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Date | 1991.01.31 |
Pages | 269 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publisher Url |
http://www.oup.co.uk/
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Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
Content type | 書籍=Book |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | 佛教人物=Buddhist; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 菩薩=Bodhisattva; 圖像學=Iconography; 漢傳佛教=大乘佛教=北傳佛教=Mahayana Buddhism |
Abstract | Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis regarding the dynamics of religious change. Interdisciplinary in scope, addressing a wide variety of issues relating to Buddhist thought and practice, and providing new and original information on the rich cultural history of Sri Lanka, this book will interest students of Buddhism and South Asia. |
ISBN | 0195064186 (hc); 9780195064186 |
Hits | 1081 |
Created date | 2008.08.15 |
Modified date | 2016.05.17 |

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