Gods and Their Origin in Sri Lanka
Author | : Ahangama Dhammarama |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ahangama Dhammarama |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gananath Obeyesekere |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 8120802136 |
Pattini-goddess, virgin, wife and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon-has been worshiped in Sri Lanks and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship and a stunning range of theoretical perspectives in this work, the most detailed analysis of a single religious complex in South Asian ethnography (and possibly in all of anthropology). Since 1955 Obeyesekere has observed and participated in modern performances of the rituals of worship, healing, and propitiation in the Pattini cult, particularly the postharvest ritual known as the gammaduva. He presents detailed texts of the gammaduva, placing them in their historical and mythic traditions. Using the texts, he formulates a cultural analysis of the Buddhist pantheon and a critique of empiricist notions of South Asian historiography. Obeyesekere shows that some seemingly historical figures of South India and Sri Lanka are mythic characters and that their historical significance can best be understood by an anthropological analysis of myth rather than through a reification of myth in history. The concurrent Hindu worship of Pattini with its myths and rituals is described in detail. Obeyesekere documents the Sanskritization of Pattini, the changing physical structures of the goddess's shrines from the 1930s to the present, the assumption by Brahman priests of ritual functions formerly carried out by folk priest, and the sociocultural causes of these changes. He traces, too, the origins and diffusion of the cult throughout its entire history, as well as its survival today. Of psychological interest is the problematic status of Pattini as virgin, wife, and mother and her relationship with her god-husband Palanga and his courtesan Madevi. Obeyesekere discusses the psychodynamics of this relationship in detail and explains its role in Hindu-Buddhist socialization and family structure. Further, he uses this analysis to account for local variations in the performance and structure of the ritual. The ritual of the killing and resurrection of Pattini's husband and her role as mater dolorosa will interest scholars of comparative religion.
Author | : Akil Kumarasamy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374167672 |
"Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of violence, a baby girl is renamed after a Hindu goddess but raised as a Muslim; a lonely butcher from Angola finds solace in a family of refugees in New Jersey; a gentle entomologist, in Sri Lanka, discovers unexpected reserves of courage while searching for his missing son"--Amazon.com.
Author | : Henry Parker |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788120602083 |
An account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization in Sri Lanka.
Author | : Subramaniam E Haran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-04-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781960992000 |
Book describes the history of Sri Lanka from the time of birth of Lord Buddha and today's politics. Sri Lanka is formally known as Ceylon. Sri Lanka has gone through 70 years of unrest as a result of cultural divisions. The book describes the political events of past 70 years in Sri Lanka that resulted in major violence and deaths among the groups and ultimately running into a state of financial Bankruptcy. Sri Lanka is a good example and should be an eye opener for other countries.Sri Lanka is a plural society country with Sinhala speaking Buddhist people in 70% majority. One person one vote political system always allowed a certain class of people to be in power. Sinhala Buddhism Supremacy became the core agenda for the successive governments since 1948; motivated by violent Sinhala Buddhist clergy class who were antidemocratic, anti pluralist and aspire to convert Sri Lanka into a homogenized singular nation with one religion, one culture, and one race all wrapped around politicized Sinhala Buddhism.We see such problems in several other non-homogeneous countries such as in India, Malaysia including USA where governance is based on a system of "one vote one person". One can see the trend in US with growing different groups and agendas. Western Democracy principal is based on one person one vote always results in majority group suppressing the rights of the minority groups. Minority rights ignored. Votes become a trad-able commodity; wealthy and politically connected groups take advantage buying votes and get into power.
Author | : Zoltán Biedermann |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2017-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1911307827 |
The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.
Author | : Nandasēna Ratnapāla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leonard Pinto |
Publisher | : Balboa Press |
Total Pages | : 967 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1452528624 |
Most people know something about their own religions. That knowledge is usually restricted to what is going on at the present time. When it comes to how their religions developed in their countries, their knowledge is on shakier grounds. As for religion in foreign lands, well, for many, that information is nonexistent. Author Leonard Pintos Being a Christian in Sri Lanka: Historical, Political, Social, and Religious Considerations is a critique based on the observations and experience of a Sri Lankan Christian. Pinto shares the history and importance of religion in his native land. Youll learn about Portuguese, Dutch, and British rule in the country formerly known as Ceylon, and how each affected religion there. Pinto dispels popular views about how ruling countries dealt with Christianity and other religions, and with those who practiced them. Youll learn how religion is practiced today from someone who lives it firsthand. Pintos book goes beyond the boundaries of Sri Lanka in assessing the problems faced by Christianity from the corrosive effects of the Age of Enlightenment. In Being a Christian in Sri Lanka: Historical, Political, Social, and Religious Considerations, Pinto comes to the conclusion Sri Lanka would benefit from a Sri Lankan national identity for all its citizens. Hegemony based on ethnicity and religion is dissuaded. Youll also find Pintos conclusions relevant to other countries.
Author | : Gananath Obeyesekere |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-08-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351592254 |
This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. Gananath Obeyesekere, one of the foremost analytical voices from South Asia develops Freud’s notion of ‘dream work’, the ‘work of culture’ and ideas of no-self (anatta) to understand Buddhism in contemporary Sri Lanka. This work offers a restorative interpretation of Buddhist myths in contrast to the perspective involving deconstruction. The book deals with a range of themes connected with Buddhism, including oral traditions and stories, the religious pantheon, philosophy, emotions, reform movements, questions of identity and culture, and issues of modernity. This fascinating volume will greatly interest students, teachers and researchers of religion and philosophy, especially Buddhism, ethics, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, Sri Lanka and modern South Asian history.
Author | : Michael Jordan |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Goddesses |
ISBN | : 1438109857 |
Presents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.