Buddhism, the asokan persona, and the galactic polity : Rethinking Sri Lanka's constitutional present

Social Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 156-178

  De Silva Wijeyeratne, Roshan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Decentralization; Dhamma; Galactic polity; Kingship; Ontological grounding; Pillar edicts; Sangha; Unitary state

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249148236     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2007.510111     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Clifford, Regina T. 1978. "The Dhammadipa Tradition in Sri Lanka: Three Models within the Sinhalese Chronicles." Pp. 36-47 in Smith 1978a
2. Collins, Steven. 1993. "The Discourse on What Is Primary." Journal of Indian Philosophy 21, no. 4: 301-393
3. - . 1996. "The Lion's Roar on the Wheel-Turning King: A Response to Andrew Huxley's 'The Buddha and the Social Contract.'" Journal of Indian Philosophy 24, no. 4: 421-446
4. Collins, Steven, and Andrew Huxley. 1996. "The Post-Canonical Adventures of Mahasammata." Journal of Indian Philosophy 24, no. 6: 623-648
5. de Silva, Chandra R. 1997. Sri Lanka: A History. 2nd rev. ed. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
6. Dirks, Nicholas B. 2001. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
7. D'Oyly, John. [1929] 1975. A Sketch of the Constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom. 2nd ed. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Tisara Prakasakayo
8. Dumont, Louis. 1980. Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. Trans. Mark Sainsbury, Louis Dumont, and Basia Gulati. Chicago: Chicago University Press
9. Duncan, James. 1990. The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
10. Frydenlund, Iselin. 2005. The Sangha and Its Relation to the Peace Process in Sri Lanka. Report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo
11. Ghoshal, Upendra N. 1959. A History of Indian Political Ideas. Bombay: Oxford University Press
12. Heidegger, Martin. 1962. Being and Time. Trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell
13. Heine-Geldern, Robert. 1942. "Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia." Far Eastern Quarterly 2, no. 1: 15-30
14. - . 1956. "Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia." Southeast Asia Data Paper, no. 18. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
15. Hocart, Arthur M. 1931. The Temple of the Tooth in Kandy: Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon. Vol. 4. London: Luzac
16. - . [1936] 1970. Kings and Councillors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
17. Holt, John C. 1991. Buddha in the Crown. New York: Oxford University Press
18. Huxley, Andrew. 1996. "The Buddha and the Social Contract." Journal of Indian Philosophy 24, no. 4: 406-420
19. Inden, Ron. 1990. Imagining India. Oxford: Basil Blackwell
20. Kapferer, Bruce. 1991. A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. Washington, DC: Berg Publishers and Smithsonian Institution Press
21. - . 1997. The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
22. - . 1998. Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press
23. Kemper, Steven. 1991. The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
24. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. 1984. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Manchester: Manchester University Press
25. Magee, Bryan, ed. 1987. The Great Philosophers. Oxford: Oxford University Press
26. Malalgoda, Kitsiri. 1976. Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1765-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press
27. Mendis, G. C. 1932. The Early History of Ceylon. Preface by Wilhelm Geiger. Calcutta: YMCA Publishing House
28. Misra, G. S. P. 1972. The Age of the Vinaya: A Historical and Cultural Study. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal
29. Moertono, Soemarsaid. 1968. State and Statecraft in Old Java: A Study of the Later Mataram Period, 16th to 19th Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
30. Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1963. "The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism." Journal of Asian Studies 22, no. 2:139-153
31. - . 1984. The Cult of the Goddess Pattini. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
32. Obeyesekere, Gananath, Frank Reynolds, and Bardwell L. Smith, eds. 1972. The Two Wheels of Dhamma: Essays on the Theravada Tradition in India and Ceylon. Chambersburg, PA: American Academy of Religion
33. Perera, Sasanka, ed. 1996. Newton Gunasinghe: Selected Essays. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Social Scientists Association
34. Rasmussen, David. 1990. Reading Habermas. Oxford: Basil Blackwell
35. Reynolds, Frank. 1972. "The Two Wheels of Dhamma: A Study of Early Buddhism." Pp. 6-30 in Obeyesekere, Reynolds, and Smith 1972
36. Roberts, Michael. 1994. Exploring Confrontation. Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers
37. - . 2004. Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period: 1590s to 1815. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications
38. Seneviratne, H. L. 1978a. "Religion and Legitimacy of Power in the Kandyan Kingdom." Pp. 177-187 in Smith 1978a
39. - . 1978b. Rituals of the Kandyan State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
40. - . 1999. The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
41. Smith, Bardwell L. 1972. "The Ideal Social Order as Portrayed in the Chronicles of Ceylon." Pp. 31-57 in Obeyesekere, Reynolds, and Smith 1972
42. -, ed. 1978a. Religion and Legitimacy of Power in Sri Lanka. Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books
43. - . 1978b. "Kingship, the Sangha, and the Process of Legitimation in Anuradhapura Ceylon." Pp. 73-95 in Smith 1978a
44. Strong, John S. 1983. The Legend of King Asoka: A Study and Translation of the Asokavadana. Princeton: Princeton University Press
45. Tambiah, Stanley J. 1976. World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity against a Historical Background. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
46. - 1985. Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
47. - . 1992. Buddhism Betrayed: Religion, Politics and Violence in Sri Lanka. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
48. Thapar, Romila. 1961. Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas. Delhi: Oxford University Press
49. Tucci, Giuseppe. 1971. The Theory and Practice of the Mandala. London: Rider
50. Wheatley, Paul. 1977. "The Suspended Pelt: Reflections on a Discarded Model of Spatial Structure." Pp. 47-108 in Geographic Humanism, Analysis and Social Action, ed. Donald R. Deskins, Jr. Michigan Geographical Publications, no. 17. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
51. Wickremeratne, Ananda. 1987. "Shifting Metaphors of Sacrality: The Mythic Dimensions of Anuradhapura." Pp. 45-59 in The City as a Sacred Center: Essays on Six Asian Contexts, ed. Holly Baker Reynolds and Bardwell Smith. Leiden: E. J. Brill
52. Woodward, F. L., and E. M. Hare, trans. 1932-1936. The Book of the Gradual Sayings. Vols. 1-5. Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the Pali Text Society