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200 10$aBuddha in the crown$b[electronic resource] $eAvalokites?vara in the Buddhist traditions of Sri Lanka /$fJohn Clifford Holt
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1991
215   $a1 online resource (306 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-506418-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aPreface; Contents; 1 Introduction: The Setting and the Problem; 2 The Relevant Historical and Doctrinal Background; 3 Ascetic and King: The Iconography of Avalokites?vara and Na?tha; 4 The Politics of Deification in Medieval Sri Lanka: Avalokites?vara Becomes Na?tha Deviyo; 5 The Mythicization of History: Na?tha and Pitiye in Kandyan Folklore; 6 The Power of Place: Oral Traditions at Rural Kandyan Na?tha Deva?layas; 7 Central Power, Sacred Order: Center and Periphery in the Kandyan Kingdom; 8 Na?tha and the ""Rock Chief""; 9 Conclusion: Maitreya-in-the-Making; Notes; Bibliography; Index
330   $aSri Lanka has one of Asia's most pluralistic religious cultures. From a study of the changing role played by one Buddhist deity in Sinhala religious culture, the author of this study develops a thesis about the mechanism of religious change.
606   $aAvalokites?vara (Buddhist deity)$zSri Lanka
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