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Author:

Obeyesekere, Gananath. cn

Title:

The two wheels of dhamma; essays on the Theravada tradition in India and Ceylon, by Gananath Obeyesekere, Frank Reynolds [and] Bardwell L. Smith, editor.

Publisher:

American Academy of Religion,

Copyright Date:

1972

Description:

121 p. 24 cm.

Subject:

Buddhism--History--History--Early period, to ca. 250 B.C.
Buddhism--Sri Lanka--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Other Authors:

Reynolds, Frank, 1930- cn
Smith, Bardwell L., 1925- cn

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction [by] B. L. Smith.--The two wheels of dhamma; a study of early Buddhism, by F. Reynolds.--The ideal social order as portrayed in the chronicles of Ceylon, by B. L. Smith.--Religious Symbolism and political change in Ceylon by G. Obeyesekere.--Sinhalese Buddhism and the dilemmas of reinterpretation, by B. L. Smith.--From philology to anthropology; a bibliographical essay on works related to early, Theravada and Sinhalese Buddhism, by F. Reynolds (p. 107-121)

Series:

AAR studies in religion, no. 3

LCCN:

70188906

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)