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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

Buddhism Transformed

Religious Change in Sri Lanka

by Richard Gombrich & Gananath Obeyesekere

A study of religious change in modern Sri Lanka by a Sanskritist and an anthropologist, covering the reformed 'Protestant Buddhism' of the urban middle class and new forms of devotion to deities. It is a key work on Buddhist modernism in Asia.

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