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The History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine : A Translation of the Sinhala Thūpavaṃsa by Stephen C. Berkwitz is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number of Buddhist histories written in local languages for popular consumption. The Sinhala Thupavamsa, composed by Parakama Pandita in thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, is an important example of a Buddhist chronicle written in the vernacular Sinhala language. Furthermore, it is
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- Author
- Stephen C. Berkwitz
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781435620056
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Buddhism, Religion, Rituals & Practice
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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