Precept and practise : traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon / by Richard F. Gombrich
| dc.contributor | Gombrich, Richard Francis Balliol College Oxford University Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Gombrich, Richard Francis |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:38:51Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:38:51Z |
| dc.date.created | 1971 |
| dc.date.issued | 1989-05-04 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1304 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1304 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
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| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Buddhism -- Sri Lanka |
| dc.subject.other | Buddhism |
| dc.title | Precept and practise : traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon / by Richard F. Gombrich |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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PREFACE THIS book is a revised version of my thesis, "Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism in its relation to the Pali Canon', approved for the D.Phil. degree at Oxford University. The thesis was sub- stantially written in the university vacations of 1966-7. On sab- batical leave in Ceylon in the latter half of 1969 I took the oppor- tunity to make some changes, but although I hope to have elimi- nated some mistakes, I could not entirely bring it up to date, or profit by all the publications which have appeared since I started writing. Rather than delay publication still further I am letting it go forward now, for revision is a process which can never be completed. In particular, however, I must mention that Chapter 8 was written before I had read <1Homo Hierarchicus>1 by Louis Dumont (Gallimard, Paris, 1966); I would formulate most of the first half of the chapter very differently today, but I have let it stand because I do not think that my conclusions have b . . .
