Buddha in the Crown

Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka

Bibliographic Data

ID8088065
AuthorsJohn Clifford Holt (corresponding author)
Year1991
Pages269
Publication date1991-01-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBuddha in the crown (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195064186.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388387227
Open LibraryOL1855027M
ISBN9780195064186
LanguageEN
Citations received16

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 Avalokiteśvara, was assimilated to the indigenous Sinhala god N ātha, and ultimately became identified with the bodhisattva Maitreya - the next Buddha of the future, expected by virtually all Buddhist traditions of Asia

Ancient history · Bodhisattva · Buddhism · Christianity · Gautama Buddha · Hinduism · Indigenous · Islam · South asia · Sri lanka · Theology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity) · Cult · Ecology · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies

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