The Buddhist Visnu
Subtitle: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780231133234
Subjects: Buddhism; Devotional theology & objects of veneration; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Buddhism - General; Religion / Buddhism; Buddhism - Zen; Cult; Hinduism; History; Relations; Sri Lanka; Vishnu (Hindu deity)
First sentence: This chapter explores very briefly the problem of how Hindus have enfolded the Buddha into their changing religious culture in various historical contexts, as an especially relevant example of the theoretical problem I sketched in the introduction to part 1.