Buddha in the crown : Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka

著者

• Holt, John

書誌事項

Buddha in the crown : Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka

John Clifford Holt

Oxford University Press, 1991

注記

Bibliography: p. 245-253

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book offers a case study in religious and cultural change. Sri Lanka is the home of one of Asia's most pluralistic religious cultures; four major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity - have found a permanent home within its boundaries. This makes it an ideal laboratory for the study of how religious traditions mix. John Holt here examines the career of a single deity, who began as the Indian Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, was assimilated to the indigenous Sinhala god Natha, and ultimately became identified with the bodhisattva Maitreya - the next Buddha of the future, expected by virtually all Buddhist traditions of Asia.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA11980196
• ISBN:
  • 9780195064186
• LCCN: 90006835
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 269 p., [20] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC7 : 186.82
  • LCC : BQ4710.A84
  • DC20 : 294.3/4211/095493
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity) -- Sri Lanka