{"product_id":"popularizing-buddhism-preaching-as-performance-in-sri-lanka-9780791468982","title":"Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching as Performance in Sri Lanka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book to focus on the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching in Asia, Popularizing Buddhism examines the role of preaching in Buddhist devotional life and its relationship to the vernacular Sinhala literature of late medieval Sri Lanka. Blending ethnography, textual and doctrinal studies, and an analysis of untranslated Sinhala vernacular Buddhist texts, Mahinda Deegalle traces the development of Buddhist preaching within the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. He explains the preaching ceremony popularly known as bana and offers a rich depiction of preaching styles, events, and specific preachers. The book delves into the debates surrounding the preaching ritual's origin and its potential beginning and continuity within the bhanaka (reciter) tradition, and explores the interactions between vernacular religious traditions of Sri Lanka with cosmopolitan Buddhism. Deegalle advances previous research on the transmission of Buddhist teachings by constructing a vivid picture of the way Sri Lankan Buddhist traditions have shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mahinda Deegalle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.58w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791468982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMahinda Deegalle \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at Bath Spa University in England. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eBuddhism, Conflict, and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with Frank J. Hoffman) of \u003ci\u003ePali Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44697639714931,"sku":"9780791468982","price":55.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_dc9af911-c7c2-4943-8dcc-ed99301ca36a.jpg?v=1775244982","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/popularizing-buddhism-preaching-as-performance-in-sri-lanka-9780791468982","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}