Buddhism and Caste in India and Sri Lanka

Jeffrey Samuels

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Abstract This article examines the place of caste in Buddhism in India and Sri Lanka. In addition to suggesting a way of reconciling divergent attitudes toward caste in the Pali canon and several Sanskrit texts, this article explores the role that caste has played in the creation of new monastic lineages in eighteenth‐, nineteenth‐, and twentieth‐century Sri Lanka, as well as its role in monastic patronage and temple building in contemporary Sri Lanka.

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1959The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism.1976Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750–1900 1971Precept and practice: traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon,1984Robe and Plough: Monasticism and Economic Interest in Early Medieval Sri Lanka

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