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The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture
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The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture Paperback - 2004

by Holt, John

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  • Title The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture
  • Author Holt, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 441
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, USA
  • Date 2004-12-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ0173NY_ns
  • ISBN 9780231133234 / 0231133235
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.32 x 0.93 in (22.71 x 16.05 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Library of Congress subjects Buddhism - Sri Lanka - History, Buddhism and politics - Sri Lanka
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003064634
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.309

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This chapter explores very briefly the problem of how Hindus have enfolded the Buddha into their changing religious culture in various historical contexts, as an especially relevant example of the theoretical problem I sketched in the introduction to part 1.

About the author

John C. Holt is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is the author of several books, including Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Tradition of Sri Lanka, winner of an American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence, and The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka, and is the editor of Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia.