Download or read book Buddha in the Crown written by John Holt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka has one of Asia's most pluralistic religious cultures. From a study of the changing role played by one Buddhist deity in Sinhala religious culture, the author of this study develops a thesis about the mechanism of religious change.