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...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2019]
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Dans: |
Entangled Religions
Année: 2019, Volume: 8 |
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Royauté sacrée
/ Hindouisme
/ Dialogue interreligieux
/ Buddhisme
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RelBib Classification: | AX Dialogue interreligieux BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Buddhism
B Gods B Poetry B A´soka B Bodhisattva B Metaphor B Kingship |
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