Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture /

Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture / / Anne M. Blackburn.

Anne Blackburn explores the emergence of a predominant Buddhist monastic culture in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, while asking larger questions about the place of monasticism and education in the creation of religious and national traditions. Her historical analysis of the Siyam Nikaya, a monastic o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Blackburn, Anne M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2001
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER ONE. "Destroying the Thick Darkness of Wrong Beliefs"
  • CHAPTER TWO. Contextualizing Monasticism
  • CHAPTER THREE. Marks of Distinction
  • CHAPTER FOUR. 'They Were Scholars and Contemplatives'
  • CHAPTER FIVE. 'He Benefited the World and the Sasana1
  • CHAPTER SIX. Readers, Preachers, and Listeners
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. "Let Us Serve Wisdom"
  • APPENDIX A. Contents of the Monastic Handbook Attributed to Saranamkara
  • APPENDIX B. Level Four Subject Areas and Texts
  • APPENDIX C. Siyam Nikaya Temple Manuscript Collections
  • APPENDIX D. List of Manuscripts Brought from Siam in 1756
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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