Bengali Buddhists

[Geoffrey Samuel]

Paola Tinti completed a D.Phil. on the contemporary Buddhist population in
Bangladesh last year at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. The title is
"Between Two Civilizations: History and Self-Representation of Bangladeshi
Buddhists", 1998. Paola argues that the community is now and has for many
years back been essentially a northwards extension of the Theravada
Buddhism of Southeast Asia (particularly Arakan, which played a major role
in the revival of Bengali Buddhism in the C19).

There is also a book in Swedish by E. Rosen-Hockersmith, Buddhismen i
Bangladesh. En studie av en minoritetsreligion. Religionshistorika
institutionen vid Uppsala universitet, Uppsala 1985.

Geoffrey Samuel

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This e-mail address is being used by Geoffrey Samuel and Santi Rozario

Oxford telephone number (01865) 744169  (until August 1999)

Permanent address:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia

Our permanent e-mail addresses are

Geoffrey: sogbs at cc.newcastle.edu.au
Santi: sostr at cc.newcastle.edu.au

If you are sending us e-mail after June 23 (Santi) or July 31 (Geoffrey)
please make sure that you use these addresses

Web pages: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/samuel.htm
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