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Reading the Mahāvamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravāda Buddhist History. By Kristin Scheible. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780231171380 (cloth, also available as e-book).

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Reading the Mahāvamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravāda Buddhist History. By Kristin Scheible. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780231171380 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2018

Anne M. Blackburn
Anne M. Blackburn*
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Cornell University
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amb242@cornell.edu
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , May 2018 , pp. 567 - 569
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1 Eco, Umberto, The Limits of Interpretation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990)Google Scholar.

2 Fish, Stanley, Is There a Text in This Class? (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980)Google Scholar; Blackburn, Anne M., Buddhist Learning and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001)Google Scholar.