Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World (Buddhism and Modernity)
Steven Kemper
ISBN: | 9780226199078 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Published: | 23 December, 2014 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World (Buddhism and Modernity)
Steven Kemper
Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose 'protestant' reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and ethnic confrontation. Yet as tied to Sri Lankan nationalism as Dharmapala is in popular memory, he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, engaging other concerns. In Rescued from the Nation, Ste
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