The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture

John C. Holt

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Paper, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13323-4
$34.00 / £23.50

December, 2004
Cloth, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13322-7
$105.00 / £72.50

"This is a scholarly but eminently readable and accessible study of the multilayered resonance of Sri Lankan culture... Highly Recommended." — Choice

"John Holt's book is an impressive work of scholarship." — Journal of the Royal Asiatic Soceity

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About the Author

John C. Holt is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is the author of several books, including Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Tradition of Sri Lanka, winner of an American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence, and The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka, and is the editor of Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia.

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