From 8b4fbca08496624c8f893fe62821db1844d2cef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Khemarato Bhikkhu Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 07:33:36 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] a sri lankan --- ...mation-of-buddhism-during_liston-yarina.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _content/articles/transformation-of-buddhism-during_liston-yarina.md diff --git a/_content/articles/transformation-of-buddhism-during_liston-yarina.md b/_content/articles/transformation-of-buddhism-during_liston-yarina.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ccae1034b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/_content/articles/transformation-of-buddhism-during_liston-yarina.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +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... + \ No newline at end of file