{"product_id":"clifford-holt-john-buddha-in-the-crown-9780195064186","title":"Buddha in the Crown","description":"This book offers a case study in religious and cultural change. Sri Lanka is the home of one of Asia's most pluralistic religious cultures; four major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity - have found a permanent home within its boundaries. This makes it an ideal laboratory for the study of how religious traditions mix.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Holt here examines the career of a single deity, who began as the Indian Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, was assimilated to the indigenous Sinhala god Natha, and ultimately became identified with the bodhisattva Maitreya - the next Buddha of the future, expected by virtually all Buddhist traditions of Asia.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53768997208406,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/clifford-holt-john-buddha-in-the-crown-9780195064186","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}