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(Hardback)
By: Anne M. Blackburn
ISBN: 9780691070445
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, this book examines such issues as bilingual commentarial practice, the relationship between clerical and "popular" religious cultures, and the place of preaching in the constitution of "textual communities".
