The Religious World of kīrti Śrī
Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8064159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Clifford Holt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Pages | 147 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The religious world of Kīrti Śrī (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195097054.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388437083 |
| Open Library | OL782012M |
| ISBN | 9780195097054 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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 demonstrates, Kirti Sri succeeded in formulating his vision of an orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of monastic sanha and re-establishing traditional lines of ordination, translating the Pali suttas into Sinhala, sponsoring public Buddhist religious rites, and refurbishing almost all Buddhist temples in the Kandyan culture region. The ultimate aim of Holt's study is to describe and interpret Kirti Sri's articulation of a normative Buddhist world, the essentials of which remain normative for many Buddhists in the Kandyan region of Sri Lanka today. Scholars and students will find The Religious World of Kirti Sri is an indispensable resource for the understanding of orthodox Buddhism at this important historical juncture, as well as the present day
Ancient history · Archaeology · Aristocracy (class · Articulation (sociology · Buddhism · Indigenous · Normative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Indian and Buddhist Studies · biography · History · Kīrti Śrī Rājasinha King of Ceylon (d. 1780 or 1782) · Kīrti Śrī Rājasinha, King of Ceylon, d. 1780 or 1782 · politics and government · Religion · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2022 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |