Divine Kingship in Medieval Sri Lanka: Dynamics in Traditions of Power and Virtue in South Asia
The present article focuses on Sri Lankan views of divine kingship to illustrate how the figure of the king was developed in ways that borrowed and were shaped by the transfer of Hindu notions of kings and gods around the period of intensive Hindu interventions into the island from the tenth to thir...
| Published in: | Entangled Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2019]
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| In: |
Entangled Religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Sacred kingship
/ Hinduism
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Buddhism
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Gods B Poetry B A´soka B Bodhisattva B Metaphor B Kingship |
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