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+title: "The Transformation of Buddhism During British Colonialism"
+authors:
+  - "Yarina Liston"
+external_url: "https://doi.org/10.2307/1051784"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tv4HxXWk6OdbpLL4is1eKMWBKGstM1W_/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: sri-lankan
+tags:
+  - west
+year: 1999
+journal: "Journal of Law and Religion"
+volume: 14
+number: 1
+pages: "189--210"
+publisher: cambridge
+openalexid: W2326642070
+---
+
+> The modern idea of religion as divorced from power succeeded in dislodging the influence that Buddhism had over Sri Lankan politics, but only for a short time...
+
+> The Sinhalese Sangha refused to be "privatized" by the British
+ government, or overpowered by the Sri Lankan elites. Using its
+ immense historical knowledge, the Buddhist Sangha took its totalizing
+ vision of Sri Lankan society public with pamphlets and preaching,
+ leading up to the 1940's Colombo college-monks' movement...
+