Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also 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...(展开全部)

Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In Buddhism, the most sacred relics are those considered parts of the cremated remains of the Buddha – a hair, a tooth, a small fragment of bone – or the tiny bead-like relics generated by ...(展开全部)

主编简介： 罗新，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作有《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014）、《漫长的余生：一个北魏宫女和她的时代》（2022），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都：在古道上重新发现中国》（2018）、《月亮照在阿姆河上》（2022）和学术随笔集《有所不为的反叛者：批判、怀疑与想象力》（2019）。 作者简介： 约翰·吉姆雷特（John Gimlette，1963— ），英国获奖旅行作家，足迹已遍布六十多个国家，他还是伦敦的执业律师。他的第一本书《充气公仔猪的坟墓》（获希瓦·奈保尔纪念奖）和第二本书《鱼的剧场》被《纽约时报》列入“年度最受关注的100本书”。他定期为《卫报》《泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》的旅行专栏供稿。 译者简介： 赵美园，北京大学在读博...(展开全部)

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island’s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Port...(展开全部)

The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).

This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance...(展开全部)

In this book, Jaś Elsner presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia, connecting the stupa’s artistic innovations with advancements in Buddhist philosophy and practice. He offers new insights into early Buddhist art in South India, as well as a new understanding of the relationship between early Buddhism and its material culture. The photograph...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)