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The Epic Struggle Of The Kingdom Of Kandy And Its Relevance To Modern Indo Sri Lankan Relations
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Book Synopsis The Epic Struggle of the Kingdom of Kandy and Its Relevance to Modern Indo-Sri Lankan Relations by : Brendon Gooneratne
Download or read book The Epic Struggle of the Kingdom of Kandy and Its Relevance to Modern Indo-Sri Lankan Relations written by Brendon Gooneratne and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Devas, Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka by : Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell
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.
Book Synopsis Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights by : Douglas A. Kibbee
Download or read book Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights written by Douglas A. Kibbee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume cover a broad range of issues in language policy that are hotly debated in every corner of the globe. The articles included investigate the implications of language policies on the notion of language rights as the issues are played out in very specific circumstances from the courtroom in Australia to the legislature in California to the educational system in England to the administrative practices of the European Commission. The authors explore conflicts between basic conceptions of fairness in justice, administration and education on the one hand, and political and economic realities on the other. Articles focus on langage issues in the United States, Canada, Brazil, England, France, Slovakia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Australia and several African states. Other articles consider the implications of new supernational agreements the European Union, NAFTA, GATT, the OAU on language issues in the signatory states. In sum the volume offers an extensive presentation of current issues and practices in language policy and linguistic human rights.
Book Synopsis This Inscrutable Englishman by : Brendon Gooneratne
Download or read book This Inscrutable Englishman written by Brendon Gooneratne and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John D'Oyly accomplished the seemingly impossible with the annexation on behalf of the British Crown of Sri Lanka's fiercely independent Kingdom of Kandy in 1815. This biography looks at his conduct and motives.
Book Synopsis Kandy at War by : Channa Wickremesekera
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:
Book Synopsis The Pilimatalavuvas in the Last Days of the Kandyan Kingdom by : Ananda Pilimatalavuva
Download or read book The Pilimatalavuvas in the Last Days of the Kandyan Kingdom written by Ananda Pilimatalavuva and published by Ananda Pilimatalavuva. This book was released on 2004 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Sri Lanka in fag end of 18th century and 19th century and some prominent nobility of the period.
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom 1591-1765 by : Gananath Obeyesekere
Download or read book The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom 1591-1765 written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by magnificent mountains, the city of Kandy, home of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth and the Royal Palace, was the capital of Lanka for about three hundred years. Gananath Obeysekere paints a vivid portrait of the kings of these great green highlands of Kandy, revealing a complex and advanced society every bit as violent as any other civilization. Focusing on kings Vimaladharmasuriya 1, Rajasinha II, Sri Vijaya Rajasinha and Kirti Sri Rajasinha, he brings the Kandyan monarchy to life, depicting them not as mythic figures but as real flesh and blood, larger than life characters who ruled over the last citadel of Lankan aristocracy
Book Synopsis The Chieftains in the Last Phase of the Kandyan Kingdom (Sinhalé) by : Ananda Pilimatalavuva
Download or read book The Chieftains in the Last Phase of the Kandyan Kingdom (Sinhalé) written by Ananda Pilimatalavuva and published by Ananda Pilimatalavuva. This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective biographies of chieftains of Sri Lanka in late 18th century and the political conditions of their times.
Book Synopsis The Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka, 1707-1782 by : Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja
Download or read book The Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka, 1707-1782 written by Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Kingdom of Kandy by : Sinnappah Arasaratnam
Download or read book The Kingdom of Kandy written by Sinnappah Arasaratnam and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality by : Robert T. Francoeur
Download or read book The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality written by Robert T. Francoeur and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: --A completely updated one-volume edition of the 4-volume International Encyclopedia of Sexuality--Includes nearly 60 countries and places--12 not previously covered--by more than 200 authorities--It is the only reference work of its kind in any language
Book Synopsis The Nayaks of Sri Lanka, 1739-1815 by : Subramanian Gopalakrishnan
Download or read book The Nayaks of Sri Lanka, 1739-1815 written by Subramanian Gopalakrishnan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directory of Office Holders of the Kandyan Kingdom, Sri Lanka by :
Download or read book Directory of Office Holders of the Kandyan Kingdom, Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Accessions List, South Asia by : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Download or read book Accessions List, South Asia written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi and published by . This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.
Book Synopsis Account of Mr Pybus's Mission by : John Pybus
Download or read book Account of Mr Pybus's Mission written by John Pybus and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism by : Stephen C. Berkwitz
Download or read book Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many researchers have explored the impact of British and French Orientalism in the reinterpretations of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less noticed, however, and infrequently discussed is the impact of Portuguese colonialists and missionaries upon Buddhist communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries across Asia. Stephen C. Berkwitz addresses this theme by examining five poetic works by Alagiyavanna Mukaveti (b.1552), a renowned Sinhala poet who participated directly in the convergence of local and trans-local cultures in early modern Sri Lanka. Berkwitz follows the written works of the poet from his position in the court of a Sinhala king, through the cultural upheavals of warfare and the expansion of colonial rule, and finally to his eventual conversion to Catholicism and employment under the Portuguese Crown. In so doing, Berkwitz explores the transformations in religion and literature rendered by what was arguably the earliest sustained encounter between Asian Buddhists and European colonialists in world history. Alagiyavanna's poetic works give expression to both a discourse of nostalgia for the local religious and cultural order in the late sixteenth century, and a discourse of cultural assimilation with the new colonial order during its ascendancy in the early seventeenth century. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that combines Buddhist Studies, History, Literary Criticism, and Postcolonial Studies, this book yields important insights into how the colonial experience contributed to the transformation of Buddhist culture in early modernity.
