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Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
John Clifford Holt considers what it meant for various individuals, lay and monk, to be Buddhist in Sri Lanka during the advent of European colonialis...
Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture
Spirits of the Place is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. Most often studied as a p...
Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the vari...
Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture
John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lank...
Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis is a probing search into the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the ...
Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous...
The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapiṭaka
Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapitaka is a penetrating analysis of a heretofore neglected, yet centrally important portion of the Pal...
Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predomin...