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Impact of Buddhism on Sri Lanka: The Indian Influence
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Author(s): Sudha Jha Pathak (Amity Law School, India)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 22
Source title:
Intercultural Relations and Ethnic Conflict in Asia
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Swati Jaywant Rao Bute (AMITY University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0582-2.ch003
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Abstract
This paper is a historical study of the mutual exchanges in the religious and cultural traditions, in the context of Buddhism between India and Sri Lanka. As a powerful medium of trans-acculturation, Buddhism enriched several countries especially of South and South-East Asia. Though Asoka used Buddhism as a unifying instrument of royal power, he was considered as the ruler par excellence who ruled as per dhamma and righteousness ensuring peace and harmony in the kingdom. He was emulated by several rulers in the Buddhist world including Sri Lanka. Royal patronage of the Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lanka was reciprocated by support for the institution of kingship. Kingship played an important role in the political unification of the country, whereas Buddhism provided the ground for ideological consolidation. The Indian impact is clearly visible in all aspects of Sri Lankan life and identity-religion (Buddhism), art architecture, literature, language. However the culture and civilization which developed in the island nation had its own distinctive variant despite retaining the Indian flavour.
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