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Focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827-1911) to examine Buddhist life under foreign rule. This work reveals that during Sri Lanka's crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization, there was a surprising stability in the religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked.

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"Anne Blackburn's close reading of the life and monastic career of Hikkaduve Sumangala, perhaps the most influential Buddhist monk of low-country Lanka, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century religious culture on this small but historically important island nation." - John Clifford Holt, Bowdoin College"

Locations of Buddhism Colonialism and Modernity

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9780226055077, 978-0226055077
      ISBN10: 0226055078
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      Book Synopsis
      Focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827-1911) to examine Buddhist life under foreign rule. This work reveals that during Sri Lanka's crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization, there was a surprising stability in the religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked.

      Trade Review
      "Anne Blackburn's close reading of the life and monastic career of Hikkaduve Sumangala, perhaps the most influential Buddhist monk of low-country Lanka, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century religious culture on this small but historically important island nation." - John Clifford Holt, Bowdoin College"

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