Peter Skilling, Jason A. Carbine, Claudio Cicuzza and Santi Pakdeekham (eds.), How Theravāda is Theravāda? Exploring Buddhist Identities. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2012. xxxvi + 620 pp. £40.00/$60.00. ISBN 978-6-16215- 044-9 (paperback).
Issue: Vol 8 No. 2 (2014)
Journal: Religions of South Asia
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies
Abstract:
Book review.
Author: Alastair Gornall
References :
Collins, Steven. 1998. Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali imaginaire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520655
— 2003. “What is Literature in Pali?” In Sheldon Pollock (ed.), Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia: 649–88. Berkeley: University of California Press.