Title: The history of the Buddha's relic shrine
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Buddhism, History, Relics, Ruwanweliseya (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka), Gautama buddha, Sri lanka, history, Buddhism, sri lanka, Buddhism, history
Places: Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
People: Gautama Buddha
LC classification: BQ6333.A582 R88713 2007