Buddhism and Culture

accept ancient Anglicised artist aspect attempt attitude became become began believe better Buddha Buddhist called century Ceylon characters Chekov Christian classical conception created critical culture describes descriptions developed discipline early educated English European experience express feeling gives Gorky hand heart Hindu holy human idea ignored independent India individual influence inspiration interest introduced intuition Jaffna king knowledge language learning literary literature living means method mind monks movement mysticism nature Nikitin novel novelists occult original peace period phase philosophy poem poetry political problems prose rational reader realistic referred rejected religion religious result Russian Sanskrit says scholars schools sculpture seems simple Sinhalese Sinhalese literature social soul spiritual stories suffering suggestive symbol theory things thought tion tradition treated truth villager Western Westernisation wife worship writers written young