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Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka

Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka

Harris, Elizabeth

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Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

BuddhismGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415544424
ISBN13: 9780415544429
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 29 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it.

Tracing the three main historical phases of the encounter from 1796 to 1900, the book provides a sensitive and nuanced exegesis of the cultural and political influences that shaped the early British understanding of Buddhism and that would condition its subsequent transmission to the West.

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