Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism - Berkwitz, Stephen C
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Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism examines five works by the poet Alagiyavanna to demonstrate how Buddhism in Sri Lanka was transformed by the encounters with Portuguese colonialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism examines five works by the poet Alagiyavanna to demonstrate how Buddhism in Sri Lanka was transformed by the encounters with Portuguese colonialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Autorenporträt
Stephen C. Berkwitz is Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Sri Lankan Buddhism, including The History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine: A Translation of the Sinhala Thupavamsa and Buddhist History in the Vernacular: The Power of the Past in Medieval Sri Lanka.