The history of the Buddha's relic shrine
Subtitle: a translation of the Sinhala Thūpavaṃsa
By: Stephen C. Berkwitz
Contributors: Berkwitz, Stephen C., 1969-
Series: American Academy of Religion texts and translations series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195301397
Subjects: Gautama Buddha -- Relics -- Sri Lanka -- Anuradhapura -- History; Ruwanweliseya (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka) -- History; Buddhism -- Sri Lanka -- History
Work titles: Sinhala Thūpavaṃsa.
Description: "In this book Stephen Berkwitz offers the first complete English translation of the Sinhala Thupavamsa. Composed in a literary dialect of Sinhala, it contains a richly descriptive account of how Buddhism spread outside of India, replete with poetic embellishments and interpolations not found in other accounts of those events."--Jacket.
Notes: Translated from Sinhalese

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index