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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Main Author: Harris, Elizabeth J. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2019]
In: Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 200-222
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