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Author : O. M. Da Silva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fidalgos in the Kingdom of Jafanapatam, Sri Lanka, 1543-1658 written by O. M. Da Silva and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald S. Lopez
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226493210
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book From Stone to Flesh written by Donald S. Lopez and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation. But who was this Buddha, and how did he become the Buddha we know and love today? Leading historian of Buddhism Donald S. Lopez Jr. tells the story of how various idols carved in stone—variously named Beddou, Codam, Xaca, and Fo—became the man of flesh and blood that we know simply as the Buddha. He reveals that the positive view of the Buddha in Europe and America is rather recent, originating a little more than a hundred and fifty years ago. For centuries, the Buddha was condemned by Western writers as the most dangerous idol of the Orient. He was a demon, the murderer of his mother, a purveyor of idolatry. Lopez provides an engaging history of depictions of the Buddha from classical accounts and medieval stories to the testimonies of European travelers, diplomats, soldiers, and missionaries. He shows that centuries of hostility toward the Buddha changed dramatically in the nineteenth century, when the teachings of the Buddha, having disappeared from India by the fourteenth century, were read by European scholars newly proficient in Asian languages. At the same time, the traditional view of the Buddha persisted in Asia, where he was revered as much for his supernatural powers as for his philosophical insights. From Stone to Flesh follows the twists and turns of these Eastern and Western notions of the Buddha, leading finally to his triumph as the founder of a world religion.
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
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Total Pages : 1664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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Author : Paulus Edward Pieris
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120613720
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658 written by Paulus Edward Pieris and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Of The Portuguese In Ceylon Is Of More Than Local Interest, For It Depicts For Us A Characteristic Phase Of The Beginning Of European Expansion In The East. A Hundred And Fifty Three Years After The Portuguese First Landed In Ceylon They Were Expelled From The Country, Leaving The Gloomy Word Failure Writ Large Over All Their Actions. That However Was Not All, For They Left The Sinhalese A Broken Race, With Their Ancient Civilization Brought Ot The Verge Of Ruin, And Their Scheme Of Life Well-Nigh Destroyed.
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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 9788120813007
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Culavamsa written by and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1996 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical work on the political and religious history of Sri Lanka.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911307843
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.
Author : Haydn Richards
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ISBN 13 : 9780602275150
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Junior English written by Haydn Richards and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004165088
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Adaptable Peasant written by Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.
Author : Harry Charles Purvis Bell
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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Author : Asoka Bandarage
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110838648
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Colonialism in Sri Lanka written by Asoka Bandarage and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Alagiah
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349142645
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book A Home From Home written by George Alagiah and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967 he was confronted with an extreme version of the private struggle faced by all immigrants - the battle to leave the past behind and fit into a new culture. His arrival in Britain coincided with the unhappy intrusion of race into politics. A key part of the ensuing fight against racism was the concept of multiculturalism. But in a closely argued and forthright chapter, Alagiah suggests that, far from improving the prospects for some immigrants, multiculturalism may be an impediment to integration. All too often these are the poor and isolated communities who most need the help of the state to break out of what is fast becoming a version of ghetto life. Above all, this book is a tender and evocative portrayal of the immigrant experience. Alagiah brings colour and life to a subject that is too often reduced to screaming tabloid headlines, and sheds light on the controversial question of British identity.
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Total Pages : 1004 pages
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Download or read book “The” Ceylon Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ranjith B. Mapa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303044144X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Soils of Sri Lanka written by Ranjith B. Mapa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the soils of Sri Lanka. Including sections on the soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industry, and future soil issues, the book summarizes the current state of knowledge in a concise and highly reader-friendly way.
Author : Paul Edward Pieris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
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Download or read book Ceylon written by Paul Edward Pieris and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alicia Schrikker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900415602X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 written by Alicia Schrikker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.
Author : Francisco Bethencourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521846447
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800 written by Francisco Bethencourt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays in this volume treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative dimensions - and radically update data and interpretations on the economic and financial trends of the Portuguese Empire. Interregional networks are analysed in a substantial way. Patterns of settlement, political configurations, ecclesiastical structures, and local powers are put in global context. Language and literature, the arts, and science and technology are revisited with refreshing and innovative approaches. The interaction between Portuguese and local people is studied in different contexts, while the entire imperial and colonial culture of the Portuguese world is looked at synthetically for the first time. In short, this book provides a broad understanding of the Portuguese Empire in its first four centuries as a factor in world history and as a major component of European expansion.
Author : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125812
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism written by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THE aim of this book is to set forth as simply as possible the Gospel of Buddhism according to the Buddhist scriptures, and to consider the Buddhist systems in relation, on the one hand, to the Brahmanical systems in which they originate, and, on the other hand, to those systems of Christian mysticism which afford the nearest analogies. At the same time the endeavour has been made to illustrate the part which Buddhist thought has played in the whole development of Asiatic culture, and to suggest a part of the significance it may still possess for modern thinkers. “The way of the Buddha is not, indeed, concerned directly with the order of the world, for it calls on higher men to leave the marketplace. But the order of the world can only be established on a foundation of knowledge: every evil is ultimately traceable to ignorance. It is necessary, then, to recognize the world for what it truly is. Gautama teaches us that the marks of this life are imperfection, transcience, and the absence of any changeless individuality. He sets before us a summum bonum closely akin to the Christian mystic conception of ‘self-naughting.’ Here are definite statements which must be either true or false, and a clearly defined goal which we must either accept or refuse. If the statements be false, and if the goal be worthless, it is of the highest importance that the former should be refuted and the latter discredited. But if the diagnosis be correct and the aim worthy, it is at least of equal importance that this should be generally recognized: for we cannot wish to perpetuate as the basis of our sociology a view of life that is demonstrably false or a purpose demonstrably contrary to our conception of the good. “This book is designed, therefore, not as an addition to our already overburdened libraries of information, but as a definite contribution to the philosophy of life.”—Ananada K. Coomaraswamy
