Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka by John Clifford Holt
English | Jan. 31, 1991 | ISBN: 0195064186 | 304 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | Jan. 31, 1991 | ISBN: 0195064186 | 304 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia.