| title | authors | external_url | drive_links | course | tags | year | journal | volume | number | pages | ||||
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Pilgrimage and the Structure of Sinhalese Buddhism |
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sangha |
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1982 |
jiabs |
5 |
2 |
23--40 |
… there are at least three major orientations within Sinhalese religion: 1) Bodh Gaya, commemorating the enlightenment experience; 2) Kataragama, where access to transformative "this-worldly" sacral power is sought; and 3) Kandy, where religion legitimates a people's cultural and political past and present through civil ceremony
What all three pilgrimages have in common is functional in nature: the need to cope with various manifestations of dukkha