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Buddhist History in the Vernacular: The Power of the Past in ...

Stephen C. Berkwitz

... actual development of the TheravÅda canon and its commentaries was a gradual and even somewhat contentious process. Thus, Gunaratne Panabokke can maintain that even though the council at AluvihÅra in the first century BCE settled.

History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka

Gunaratne Panabokke

... Thera Maha Kassapa.2 This was folowed up by a Sinhalese gloss on the same work by Sariputta.3 The monk ... known as the Rupdrupa Vibhdga, and a Pordna tika on Anuruddha' s Ndmarupa pariccheda.6 Vimalabuddhi Thera of the same ...

Inter-ethnic relations in the making of mainland Southeast ...

ʻArunrat Wichīankhīeo

Gunaratne Panabokke 1993. History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka. Colombo: The Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Kelaniya [originally written as his Ph.D. thesis, University of Lancaster, 1969].

Anusmr̥ti: thoughts on Sinhala culture and civilization

Anuradha Seneviratna

IV., Calcutta, 1906 G. P. Malalasekara, Pali Literature of Ceylon, Colombo, 1928 Gunaratne Panabokke, History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka, 1 993 H. P. Chattopadhaya, Ethnic Unrest in Modern Sri Lanka, New Delhi, 1 994 ...

Reading the Mahavamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada ...

Kristin Scheible

The sixty-year discrepancy is due to the different calculations made by scholars interpreting the Mahāvamsa. Gunaratne Panabokke, History of the Buddhist Sanghain India and Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka: Postgraduate Institute of Pāli and Buddhist ...