Buddha in the Crown
Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 April 1991
- ISBN 9780195064186
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 221x147x26 mm
- Weight 585 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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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 Avalokitesvara, was assimilated to the indigenous Sinhala god Natha, and ultimately became identified with the bodhisattva Maitreya - the next Buddha of the future, expected by virtually all Buddhist traditions of Asia.
Holt beautifully articulates the assimilation and transformation of Avalokitesvara in Sri Lanka by weaving together evidence drawn from historical and religious treatises, stone inscriptions, oral traditions, and icons.
