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Can I read Buddha in the crown : Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka on EtoBox?
Buddha in the crown : Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka by John Holt (undifferentiated), John Clifford Holt is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Buddha in the crown : Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka about?
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 icon
Who reads Buddha in the crown : Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Holt (undifferentiated), John Clifford Holt
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781280524905
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Buddhism, Anthropology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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