Ven. Walpola Rahula and the Politicisation of the Sinhala Sangha

By Suren Rāghavan

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20 pages

He legitimised the secularisation of the modern Sangha and its interpretation of Buddhism as exclusively Sinhala

Published in 2011 in The Journal of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies.

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    title={{V}en. {W}alpola {R}ahula and the {P}oliticisation of the {S}inhala {S}angha},
    author={Suren Rāghavan},
    year=2011,
    journal={The Journal of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies},
    volume=1,
    pages={114--133},
    keywords={sri-lanka,sri-lankan,engaged,modern},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/7}
}

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