Buddhist Meditation and the British Colonial Gaze in Nineteenth-Century Sri Lanka
This paper argues that the multiple orientalist expressions that flowed from British pens in nineteenth century Sri Lanka are of use to the scholar of Buddhism, in that they can not only shed light on the growth of Buddhist modernism and the use of the term meditation' within it, but also on S...
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Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 200-222 |
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