Thesis
Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism in its relation to the Pali canon
- Abstract:
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This thesis is based on a study of classical Pali texts and of materials gathered during a year spent in a village in central Ceylon. The material consists in particular of interviews with monks living in nearby village monasteries. My notes of these interviews, which cover more topics than could be discussed in the thesis, are reproduced in Appendix One, and some of my printed materials are summarily presented in Appendix Two. The circumstances of my field work are detailed in the last pa...
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- Publication date:
- 1969
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- UUID:
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uuid:33bcb868-a0f9-41b8-9956-fbe5bdab1eaf
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td:602326147
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602326147 and 602326148
- Deposit date:
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2013-01-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Gombrich, Richard
- Copyright date:
- 1969
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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