{"product_id":"the-religious-world-of-kirti-sri-buddhism-art-and-politics-of-late-medieval-sri-lanka-9780195107579","title":"The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Clifford Holt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Buddhism - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demonstrates, Kirti Sri succeeded in formulating his vision of an orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of monastic \u003cem\u003esanha\u003c\/em\u003e and re-establishing traditional lines of ordination, translating the Pali \u003cem\u003esuttas\u003c\/em\u003e into Sinhala, sponsoring public Buddhist religious rites, and refurbishing almost all Buddhist temples in the Kandyan culture region. The ultimate aim of Holt's study is to describe and interpret Kirti Sri's articulation of a normative Buddhist world, the essentials of which remain normative for many Buddhists in the\u003cbr\u003eKandyan region of Sri Lanka today. Scholars and students will find \u003cem\u003eThe Religious World of Kirti Sri\u003c\/em\u003e is an indispensable resource for the understanding of orthodox Buddhism at this important historical juncture, as well as the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892451033239,"sku":"9780195107579","price":7569.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195107579.webp?v=1781187043","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-religious-world-of-kirti-sri-buddhism-art-and-politics-of-late-medieval-sri-lanka-9780195107579","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}