John Clifford Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Clifford Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Clifford |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis is a probing search into the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than three years John Holt traveled around Myanmar engaging in sustained conversations with prominent and articulate participants and observers. What emerges from his peregrinations is a series of comp…
Gone but Not Departed: The Dead among the Living in Contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka
Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Caring for the Dead Ritually in Cambodia
Buddhist conceptions of the after-life, and prescribed rites in relation to the dead, were modified adaptations of brahmanical patterns of religious culture in ancient India. In this article, I demonstrate how Buddhist conceptions, rites and dispositions have been sustained and transformed in a contemporary annual ritual of rising importance in Cambodia, pchum ben. I analyze phcum ben to determine its fundamentalimportance to the sustenance and c…
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island’s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the Bri…
Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Buddhist Sculpture at Polonnaruva: A Photographic Essay
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Juliane Schober
Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
Bones, Stone and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India. Gregory Schopen
The Religious World of Kīrti Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
Chila Kumari Burman: A martial artist beyond two cultures
Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism . Donald S. Lopez, Jr
Tampered surface’: Six artists from Pakistan
The subjective image: ‘The impossible science of being’: Dialogues between anthropology and photography
Changes in the espoused values of Australian organizations 1986—1990
We compared the frequency with which 85 Australian organizations espoused nine values (authority, leadership, teamwork, commitment, rewards, normative, participation, performance and affiliation) in 1986–1988 and 1989–1990 through a content analysis of annual reports, internal magazines, and mission statements. We studied value changes both by comparing the frequency of references to single values in the two periods and the frequency with which f…
The Religious World of kīrti Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focuses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demons…
Conclusion: Maitreya-in-the-Making
Within the context of the contemporary yet traditional Sinhala Buddhist world of up-country Kandyan villages where N ā tha dē vā layas can still be found, N ā tha remains a focus of cultic life and a potential source of laukika assistance. Yet, even within these villages, he is not understood as a deity, such as Kataragama D ēviy ō, with the propensity to act dramatically, passionately, or frequently for his devotees.
Central Power, Sacred Order: Center and Periphery in the Kandyan Kingdom
Of the four major annual festivals popularly celebrated during the time of the Kandyan kings, only the Äsala Perah ära in July/August continues to be feted in great magnitude. Alut S āl mangā1yaya (the New Rice Festivals on DurutuP ōya in January), Alut Avurudda mangōlyaya (New Year’s celebration held on April 12 and 13), and K ōrtti mangōlyaya (the Festival of Lights held on 11 Poya in November) are still significant occasions at the N ōtha dēvō…
Introduction: The Setting and the Problem
Theravāda is known in the Buddhist world for its claims of doctrinal purity and for its confession of institutional conservatism, but this book is not about doctrinal purity or institutional conservatism.
N ātha and the “Rock Chief”
Symbolic rites of expressing N ātha’s laukika power also take place at the other two N ātha dēvālayas that lie within the pale of the old Kandyan kingdom but outside the Kandy District proper. Hunapahura (also known as Sunulapawra) N ātha Dēvālaya and Urulevatte N ātha Dēvālaya are located about 10 miles northwest of Matale and 15 miles northeast of Kurunegala within l mile of each other by road and within only 400 meters as the crows flies.
The Mythicization of History: N ā tha and Pitiye in Kandyan Folklore
As ethnic identity has become an increasingly crucial factor within the political dynamics of postcolonial Sri Lanka, the study of myth and ritual within Sinhala Buddhist religiocultural tradition has become a veritably relevant, contemporary, and existentially significant concern to the academic communi-ty.
The Politics of Deification in Medieval Sri Lanka: Avalokite ś vara Becomes Nātha D ē viy ō
Iconographic and epigraphic evidence indicates the cultic presence of Ava lokite ś vara from the seventh through the tenth centuries A.D. in Sri Lanka, but the Mah ā y ā na bodhisattva was not incorporated into the Sinhala Buddhist sociopolitical cosmos until the fourteenth century.
Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
This book offers a case study in religious and cultural change. Sri Lanka is the home of one of Asia’s most pluralistic religious cultures; four major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity - have found a permanent home within its boundaries. This makes it an ideal laboratory for the study of how religious traditions mix. John Holt here examines the career of a single deity, who began as the Indian Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva A…
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis is a probing search into the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than three years John Holt traveled around Myanmar engaging in sustained conversations with prominent and articulate participants and observers. What emerges from his peregrinations is a series of comp…
Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
The Religious World of kīrti Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focuses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demons…
Ritual Expression in the Vinayapiṭaka: A Prolegomenon
Ritual Expression in the Vinayapiṭaka: A Prolegomenon
Assisting the Dead By Venerating the Living
Assisting the Dead by Venerating the Living: Merit Transfer in the Early Buddhist Tradition
Death is an inevitable fact of life. For the religious as well as for some others, its occurrence does not necessarily imply life's termination or the final end of conscious being. In most traditional, and even in some post-traditional cultures, death is regarded as a transitional experience, a rite de passage: the deceased leaves behind the familiar vicissitudes of human life and enters into a new modali
Sinhalese Sectarianism: Robes, Ploughs, and Revivals Robe and Plough: Monasticism and Economic Interest in Early Medieval Sri Lanka . R. A. L. H. Gunawardana Buddhism in Sinhalese Society 1750-1900 . …
On Review of Discipline
Editorial| August 01 1983 On Review of Discipline John Holt John Holt Bowdoin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 891. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800069990 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Holt;…
Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapiṭaka
Cult and Culture: Pattini and Traditional Religion in Buddhist Sri LankaThe Cult of the Goddess Pattini. Gananath Obeyesekere
Maitreya's AdventMaitreya: The Future Buddha. Alan Sponberg , Helen Hardacre
Conclusion: Maitreya-in-the-Making
Within the context of the contemporary yet traditional Sinhala Buddhist world of up-country Kandyan villages where N ā tha dē vā layas can still be found, N ā tha remains a focus of cultic life and a potential source of laukika assistance. Yet, even within these villages, he is not understood as a deity, such as Kataragama D ēviy ō, with the propensity to act dramatically, passionately, or frequently for his devotees.
Central Power, Sacred Order: Center and Periphery in the Kandyan Kingdom
Of the four major annual festivals popularly celebrated during the time of the Kandyan kings, only the Äsala Perah ära in July/August continues to be feted in great magnitude. Alut S āl mangā1yaya (the New Rice Festivals on DurutuP ōya in January), Alut Avurudda mangōlyaya (New Year’s celebration held on April 12 and 13), and K ōrtti mangōlyaya (the Festival of Lights held on 11 Poya in November) are still significant occasions at the N ōtha dēvō…
Introduction: The Setting and the Problem
Theravāda is known in the Buddhist world for its claims of doctrinal purity and for its confession of institutional conservatism, but this book is not about doctrinal purity or institutional conservatism.
N ātha and the “Rock Chief”
Symbolic rites of expressing N ātha’s laukika power also take place at the other two N ātha dēvālayas that lie within the pale of the old Kandyan kingdom but outside the Kandy District proper. Hunapahura (also known as Sunulapawra) N ātha Dēvālaya and Urulevatte N ātha Dēvālaya are located about 10 miles northwest of Matale and 15 miles northeast of Kurunegala within l mile of each other by road and within only 400 meters as the crows flies.
The Mythicization of History: N ā tha and Pitiye in Kandyan Folklore
As ethnic identity has become an increasingly crucial factor within the political dynamics of postcolonial Sri Lanka, the study of myth and ritual within Sinhala Buddhist religiocultural tradition has become a veritably relevant, contemporary, and existentially significant concern to the academic communi-ty.
The Politics of Deification in Medieval Sri Lanka: Avalokite ś vara Becomes Nātha D ē viy ō
Iconographic and epigraphic evidence indicates the cultic presence of Ava lokite ś vara from the seventh through the tenth centuries A.D. in Sri Lanka, but the Mah ā y ā na bodhisattva was not incorporated into the Sinhala Buddhist sociopolitical cosmos until the fourteenth century.
The Power of Place: Oral Traditions at Rural Kandyan N ā tha D ē v ā layas
The myth of N ā tha’s defeat at the hands of Pitiye is the most frequently told story about N ā tha Dēviyō in the Kandyan cultural area. At each of the N ā tha dēvālayas except Vegiriya, the story is repeated today with much enthusiasm and in great detail. In fact, the myth functions as a “charter,” in the Malinowskian sense, for both the Pasgama and the Kandy N ā tha dē vā layas.
Dedication
Title Pages
The Relevant Historical and Doctrinal Background
It is difficult to know with any significant degree of certainty exactly how unity within the early Buddhist sangha was originally fractured. Suggestions in Pāli sources indicate that, even during the lifetime of the Buddha, there may have been schismatic pressures within the monkhood
Ascetic and King: The Iconography of Avalokiteśvara and Nātha
The iconographic traditions of Avalokite śvara and N ātha from the early medieval through the modem periods of Sri Lankan cultural history form a critical segment of this study. Sculptural images of the bodhisattva and the god provide a trail of anthropomorphic symbolism from the time of Ava lokite ś vara’s Mahayana cultic acceptance into the religious culture of the island in about the seventh or eighth century A.D. to Nātha’s identification wit…
Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
This book offers a case study in religious and cultural change. Sri Lanka is the home of one of Asia’s most pluralistic religious cultures; four major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity - have found a permanent home within its boundaries. This makes it an ideal laboratory for the study of how religious traditions mix. John Holt here examines the career of a single deity, who began as the Indian Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva A…
A Buddhist Critique of the Christian Concept of God. Gunapala Dharmasiri
Tampered surface’: Six artists from Pakistan
The subjective image: ‘The impossible science of being’: Dialogues between anthropology and photography
Changes in the espoused values of Australian organizations 1986—1990
We compared the frequency with which 85 Australian organizations espoused nine values (authority, leadership, teamwork, commitment, rewards, normative, participation, performance and affiliation) in 1986–1988 and 1989–1990 through a content analysis of annual reports, internal magazines, and mission statements. We studied value changes both by comparing the frequency of references to single values in the two periods and the frequency with which f…
The Religious World of kīrti Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focuses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demons…
Buddhism (26 works) · History (23 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (20 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Ancient history (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Theology (14 works)