History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine, The Helen Kent and Mary Lavin

and Mary Lavin

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History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine, The Helen Kent and Mary LavinBuddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number of Buddhist histories written in local languages for popular consumption. The Sinhala Th=upavamsa, composed by Parakama Pandita in thirteenth century Sri Lanka, is an important example of a Buddhist chronicle written in the