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The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
The Religious World of Kirti Sri Buddhism Art and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
Author: John Holt, Oxford University Press, John Clifford Holt
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 focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kand...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195097054
ISBN-10: 019509705X
Publication Date: 3/28/1996
Pages: 147
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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