| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1. death of the Buddha: a restorative interpretation -- 2. demoness Kali and the Lord Buddha: a parable for our times -- 3. Dutthagamani (Dutthagamani): the Buddhist conscience of a warrior king -- 4. Sigiriya narratives: tellers of stories, writers of histories -- PART II -- 5. Depression, Buddhism and the work of culture -- 6. Deep motivation and the work of culture in Christian penitential ecstasy -- 7. Goddess Pattini and the parable on justice -- 8. Buddhism and the idea of the self: a critique of ethnography -- PART III -- 9. Colonel Olcott: Buddhist modernism in the Theosophical movement -- 10. Personal identity and cultural crisis: the Buddhist reforms of Anagarika Dharmapala |
| Summary |
"Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, USA where he has taught for 20 years. His recent publications include The Awakened Ones: An Essay on the Phenomenology of the Visionary Experience (2012); Cannibal Talk: The Man-eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas (2005); and Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth and Karma and Rebirth: A Cross-Cultural Study (2002/2006). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Polish and Turkish, and his essays have appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 1, 2017) |
| Subject |
Gautama Buddha.
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| SUBJECT |
Gautama Buddha fast |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Sri Lanka.
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Buddhist mythology.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Buddhism
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Buddhist mythology
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Sri Lanka
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315102504 |
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1315102501 |
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1351592262 |
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9781351592260 |
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