Religious belief and practice among Sri Lankan Buddhists in the UK

This thesis presents an examination of Sri Lankan Buddhism in the UK which highlights the multivalent meanings of ritual, devotional, cultural and meditative practices within the Sri Lankan diaspora, and thereby overturns the simplifications of existing analyses of Buddhism in the West. The dominant...

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Main Author: Azzopardi, David
Published: SOAS, University of London 2010
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.749580