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| Buddhism, the Asokan Persona, and the Galactic Polity: Rethinking Sri Lanka's Constitutional Present | ||
| 作者 | de Silva Wijeyeratne, Roshan (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology |
| 卷期 | v.51 n.1 Spring |
| 出版日期 | 2007 |
| 頁次 | 156 - 178 |
| 出版者 | Berghahn Books |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.berghahnbooks.com/ |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | decentralization; dhamma; galactic polity; kingship; ontological grounding; Pillar Edicts; sangha; unitary state |
| 摘要 | Sri Lanka's civil war between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamil communities has now raged for nearly half a century. The Sri Lankan cum Sinhalese Buddhist state has since independence resisted all significant attempts by the Tamil political leadership at power sharing. Most constitutional lawyers and progressive Sri Lankan opinion (Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher, etc.) hold that short of a separate state, administrative power should be devolved in the form of a federal state, so as to give autonomy to the northeast of Sri Lanka, while the forces of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism have sought to justify the centralized state by recourse to the history of Buddhism and the Sinhalese on the island. Such arguments have drawn on the ontological potential of the cosmic order of Sinhalese Buddhism, which is fundamentally hierarchical in intent. Here I argue that the diffused nature of this cosmic order provides the ontological grounding for a decentralized state structure that can accommodate ethnic difference in a non-hierarchical relation. Thus, the legacy of Sinhalese Buddhism can be rescued from the forces of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. |
| 目次 | Abstract 156 The Asokan Persona, the Cosmology of Buddhism, and the Rituals of State 159 The Asokan Persona, Myth, and the Buddhist State in Sri Lanka 164 The Buddhist State, Virtual Sovereignty, and Galactic Polities 166 Conclusion 172 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 174 References 176 |
| ISSN | 0155977X (P); 15585727 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 182 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.11.22 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.11.22 |
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