Buddhist History in the Vernacular - The Power of the Past in Late Medieval Sri Lanka

This book on vernacular Buddhist histories written in late medieval Sri Lanka demonstrates that narrative representations of the past were designed to effectively constructing new moral communities in translocal spaces.

About the author

Stephen C. Berkwitz, Ph.D. (1999) in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Southwest Missouri State University. He has written chiefly on the cultural history and contemporary expressions of Sri Lankan Buddhism.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Berkwitz
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2004
• EAN: 9789004139107
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13910-7
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 245 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous