Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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... Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I got to Kandy , I had ...
... Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I got to Kandy , I had ...
Page 227
... Sinhalese Buddhists . Buddhists as well as Hindus came to the pilgrimage , and low caste people , dhobies and ... Sinhalese villager came with me to show me the way and we got talking about the God and the temples . According to this ...
... Sinhalese Buddhists . Buddhists as well as Hindus came to the pilgrimage , and low caste people , dhobies and ... Sinhalese villager came with me to show me the way and we got talking about the God and the temples . According to this ...
Page 228
... Sinhalese and the God asked them to carry him across the river into Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why ...
... Sinhalese and the God asked them to carry him across the river into Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why ...
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