Buddhist History in the Vernacular: The Power of the Past in Late Medieval Sri Lanka by Stephen C. Berkwitz

Buddhist History in the Vernacular: The Power of the Past in Late Medieval Sri Lanka

Stephen C. Berkwitz

360 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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This is a careful study about the power attributed to historical narratives in early medieval Sri Lanka. On the basis of Sinhala histories of the Buddha and his relics this work sheds new light on historiography at work in a vernacular setting. Ar...

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