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Buddhism, the Asokan Persona, and the Galactic Polity: Rethinking Sri Lanka's Constitutional Present |
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de Silva Wijeyeratne, Roshan (著)
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Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology
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| Volume | v.51 n.1 Spring |
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| Date | 2007 |
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| Pages | 156 - 178 |
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| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
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http://www.berghahnbooks.com/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | decentralization; dhamma; galactic polity; kingship; ontological grounding; Pillar Edicts; sangha; unitary state |
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| Abstract | Sri Lanka's civil war between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamil communities has now raged for nearly half a century. The Sri Lankan cum Sinhalese Buddhist state has since independence resisted all significant attempts by the Tamil political leadership at power sharing. Most constitutional lawyers and progressive Sri Lankan opinion (Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher, etc.) hold that short of a separate state, administrative power should be devolved in the form of a federal state, so as to give autonomy to the northeast of Sri Lanka, while the forces of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism have sought to justify the centralized state by recourse to the history of Buddhism and the Sinhalese on the island. Such arguments have drawn on the ontological potential of the cosmic order of Sinhalese Buddhism, which is fundamentally hierarchical in intent. Here I argue that the diffused nature of this cosmic order provides the ontological grounding for a decentralized state structure that can accommodate ethnic difference in a non-hierarchical relation. Thus, the legacy of Sinhalese Buddhism can be rescued from the forces of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 156
The Asokan Persona, the Cosmology of Buddhism, and the Rituals of State 159
The Asokan Persona, Myth, and the Buddhist State in Sri Lanka 164
The Buddhist State, Virtual Sovereignty, and Galactic Polities 166
Conclusion 172
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 174
References 176
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| ISSN | 0155977X (P); 15585727 (E) |
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| Hits | 117 |
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| Created date | 2023.11.22 |
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| Modified date | 2023.11.22 |
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