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Prologue
i-vi |
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Introduction
1-21 |
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Part I The stage, the script, and the actors |
| Chapter
1 |
Ethnicity
in a world of violence 22-39 |
| Chapter
2 |
Sri
Lanka: Tamil tigers, Sinhala lions and the dance round
the totem pole 40-64 |
| Chapter
3 |
The
continuing dance or the last tango? One nation with two
minds 65-92 |
| Part
II In the beginning... |
| Chapter
4 |
The genesis of the Dhammadipa 93-101 |
| Chapter
5 |
The structure of norms: The house that Buddhists built
102-120 |
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Part
III I'll huff and I'll puff. The Tamil connection |
| Chapter
6 |
The advent of the Tamils 121-127 |
| Chapter
7 |
The case of the prince who would not stretch in bed 128-144 |
| Chapter
8 |
Kings who smeared themselves with ash and the perils thereof
145-162 |
| Part
IV The ghosts from the inane |
| Chapter
9 |
The children of the Pitasakwalas: The coming of the Portuguese
and the Dutch 162a-180 |
| Chapter
10 |
The British and their Raj 181-191 |
| Chapter
11 |
A
plural society - Vision and realities 192-212 |
| Part
V The world of the Triple Gem |
| Chapter
12 |
Seeking refuge in the Buddha 213-224 |
| Chapter
13 |
The two wheels of the dhamma in Sri Lanka: Tradition and
change 225-240 |
| Chapter
14 |
The sangha as sons of the Buddha 241-256 |
| Chapter
15 |
The sangha in a changing world 257-274 |
|
Part VI Bidding a cloud to stand |
| Chapter
16 |
Buddhism in a world of violence 275-296 |
| Chapter
17 |
Apocalypse and millenarian visions 297-304 |
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Epilogue
Agendas without end 305-312 |
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Bibliography
|
Buddhism
and Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: A Historical Analysis