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Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars.
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Rewriting Buddhism, Alastair Gornall
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- 2020
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- Title
- Rewriting Buddhism
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alastair Gornall
- Publisher
- UCL Press
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 308
- ISBN10
- 1787355160
- ISBN13
- 9781787355163
- Series
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- Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars.