Gananath Obeyesekere is emeritus professor of anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research...
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era legislator of Ceylon Gananath Obeyesekere, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University James Peter Obeyesekere II (1879–1968), Head Mudaliyar...
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rainfall, music and peace. The debate took shape in 1992, when Gananath Obeyesekere published The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, which criticized the work...
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professor Gananath Obeyesekere describes The Conquest of America as "one of the most provocative books of our time." At the same time, Obeyesekere critiques...
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Lanka, by Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere, 1999 Blood, Peter R, Popular Sinhalese Religion Obeyesekere, Gananath. “Social Change and the Deities:...
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epic "cannot have been composed before the 5th- or 6th-century". Gananath Obeyesekere – a scholar of Buddhism, Sri Lankan religious history and anthropology...
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and the authenticity of this attribution is doubtful. According to Gananath Obeyesekere, the story of the purported Cilappadikaram author Ilango Adigal as...
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some memoirs. The term 'Protestant Buddhism,' coined by scholar Gananath Obeyesekere, is often applied to Dharmapala's form of Buddhism. It is Protestant...
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(1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press Gananath Obeyesekere, Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist...
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Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere (1988) "Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka" pp.30,31 Gananath Obeyesekere (1990) "The Work of...
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