Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka

by John Clifford Holt

Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064186
• ISBN13: 9780195064186
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"