The "Fearless Mountain" that (almost) disappeared: Looking for the history of the Abhayagiri-vihara in Sri Lanka

Deeg, Max ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5703-2976 2024. The "Fearless Mountain" that (almost) disappeared: Looking for the history of the Abhayagiri-vihara in Sri Lanka. Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia 37 , pp. 5-66. 10.60018/AcAsVa.lrct5018

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Abstract

This article traces the history of the Abhayagiri-vihāra in Sri Lanka through the available sources. It attempts to reconstruct parts of the “lost” history of the Mahāvihāra’s rival monastery in the vaṃsa literature of the latter, but also reexamines the Chinese sources about the two main monasteries of the island and the traces of Tantric Buddhism from the Abhayagiri-vihāra in order to sketch a more multifaceted history of the monastery and its rivalry with the Mahāvihāra than has been undertaken to date with an overreliance on the Pāli sources.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences
ISSN:	0860-6102
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 March 2025
Date of Acceptance:	9 September 2024
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2025 13:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177132

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