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The Carpenter-Heretic: A Collection of Buddhist Stories about Christianity from 18th-Century Sri Lanka.(Review)

Asian Folklore Studies,  December, 2000  by Fernando, Antony

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YOUNG, F. R. and G. S. B. SENANAYAKA. The Carpenter-Heretic: A Collection of Buddhist Stories about Christianity from 18th-Century Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Karunaratne & Sons, Ltd., 1998. ix + 249 pages. Facsimile of text, indexes. Paper Rp500; US$25.00. Hard cover Rp75O; US$35.00.

This book gives a translation and transliteration of a Sinhala manuscript incised on palm leaves in the eighteenth century (1762), which is presently preserved in the Nevill collection of Sinhala manuscripts at the India Office Library, London. Besides the translation and the transliteration, ...

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