An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
by
Gananath Obeyesekere
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through...