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Author : Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka Through French Eyes written by Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000630862
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Devas, Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka written by Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the worship of devas and demons in Sri Lanka, illustrating how diverse influences interacted to create the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. The work explains the processes by which apotheosis plays an important role in revitalizing that cosmology. The author offers an examination of holy sites associated with the worship of Hūniyam. These sacred spaces each have a unique background historically, and the ritualists associated with these sites have divergent understandings concerning Hūniyam. Building upon the examination of the temples, the book delves into the iconography of Hūniyam, illustrating his transformation from demon to deity in the manner that he is depicted in imagery associated with his worship. The book moves to a discussion of Aritṭ ạ Kivenḍu Perumāl, a South Indian adventurer, demonstrating the likelihood that he is the historical figure later apotheosized as Hūniyam. Sri Lankan society felt his impact so strongly that in death he became a demon in the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. Finally, the book demonstrates that the same apotheosis processes are at work today. This book will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of religion, anthropology, folklore, and history, specifically in the South Asian context.
Author : Niranjan Goswami
Publisher : Jadavpur University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857 written by Niranjan Goswami and published by Jadavpur University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception and construction of the image of India by the Western, in particular French, German and English travellers, writers and thinkers is the theme of this volume, a collection of twelve essays by academics from sundry parts of the globe. Giving a new twist to Indological, philological or postcolonial understanding of travel narratives, the authors here attempt to give fresh impetus to the discovery of India story from perspectives of cultural history, historiography, ethnography, material culture, economic modes of production, fictional travel, epistolary discourse, theatrical representation of widowhood, women in the Mutiny, feminist reading of the Mughal court, colonial painting and classical music. Circumscribed by the dates of the arrival of Ralph Fitch, the first English traveller and the Mutiny, the first War of Indian Independence this anthology revives an interest in the early modern to the colonial appropriation of India in the Western imaginary.
Author : David K. Reynolds
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438417152
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Plunging Through the Clouds written by David K. Reynolds and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-01-26 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructive Living brings together two psychotherapies—Morita and Naikan— and their associated lifeways. Both therapies were developed in this century, but their roots extend back hundreds of years in East Asian history. Morita was a professor of psychiatry at Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo. Yoshimoto was a successful businessman who retired to become a lay priest in Nara. Morita's method has it origins in Zen Buddhist psychology, and Yoshimoto's Naikan has its origins in Jodo Shinshu Buddhist psychology. Neither of these systems requires that one believe in Buddhism or have faith in anything other than one's experience. They work as well for Christians and Moslems and Jews as for Buddhists. Both are built on the naturalistic observations of humans and careful introspection of their founders. Constructive Living isn't mystical or oriental, but practical and human.
Author : Susantha Goonatilake
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761934660
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Recolonisation written by Susantha Goonatilake and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recolonisation contributes to the developing debate which is questioning the role of foreign funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs). There is a growing awareness that they serve as a powerful structural influence which impacts on both organizational landscapes and civil society. In this context, Susantha Goonatilake studies the political economy of NGO activity in Sri Lanka, a country which once had a vibrant democratic tradition and a functioning civil society. Goonatilake contends that focused NGO penetration into the country began in the 1980s simultaneously with the growth of the authoritarian state. He claims that subsequent NGO activity in Sri Lanka has had a deep impact on visible civic life, drawing the conclusion that the work of foreign funded NGOs actually undermines 'locally grown' civil institutions.
Author : Julia Child
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307264726
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book My Life in France written by Julia Child and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story—struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe—unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia’s success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America’s most endearing personalities.
Author : Carl Muller
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181588
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Colombo written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
Author : Channa Wickremesekera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kandy at War written by Channa Wickremesekera and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hem Chandra Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Ceylon written by Hem Chandra Ray and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gangodawila Chandima
Publisher : Chandima Gangodawila
ISBN 13 : 9555237913
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (552 download)
Download or read book A Critical Appraisal of the Contribution of Germany and France to Sanskrit Studies written by Gangodawila Chandima and published by Chandima Gangodawila. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dylan Fisher
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680032135
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Loneliest Band in France written by Dylan Fisher and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Colorado Book Awards 2020 Coups de Cœur, The American Library in Paris Book Awards Winner of the 2019 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, selected by Rita Bulwinkel Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator — a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier — finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song, one, they claim, that can hurt — even kill — its listeners.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Directory of Social Scientists in Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book International Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka News written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Harding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350140651
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Buddhism in the Global Eye written by John S. Harding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global context and transnational connections for understanding Buddhist modernizing movements. It also explores how Asian agency has been central to the development of modern Buddhism, and provides theoretical reflections that seek to overcome misleading East-West binaries. Using case studies from China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Tibet, Canada, and the USA, the book introduces new research that reveals the permeable nature of certain categories, such as "modern", "global", and "contemporary" Buddhism. In the book, contributors recognize the multiple nodes of intra-Asian and global influence. For example, monks travelled among Asian countries creating networks of information and influence, mutually stimulating each other's modernization movements. The studies demonstrate that in modernization movements, Asian reformers mobilized all available cultural resources both to adapt local forms of Buddhism to a new global context and to shape new foreign concepts to local Asian forms.
Author : Emma M. Green
Publisher : Addictive Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Boxed Set: Dominated by a Billionaire - Part 1-3 written by Emma M. Green and published by Addictive Publishing. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Due to strong language, violence, and sexual situations, this series is not intended for readers under the age of 18*** Polar opposites, and yet attracted like magnets… When Alma Lancaster lands her dream job at King Productions, she is determined to move forward without letting the past drag her down. Hardworking and ambitious, she may be in the movie business, but she’s not the type to let her imagination run away with her. Her career is her priority. Love will have to wait! But when she meets her CEO for the first time, the gorgeous and charismatic Vadim King, she immediately recognizes Vadim Arcadi, the only man she’s ever really loved. Twelve years after their painful separation, the lovers are reunited. Why did he change his name? How did he get to the head of this cinema empire? And more importantly, will they manage to get back together – despite the painful memories, the passion that devours them and the past that haunts them? Don’t miss Dominated by a Billionaire – Irresistible Billionaire, the latest series from Emma M. Green, author of the bestseller One Hundred Facets of Mr. Diamonds!
