204) (Hallisey, 2003, p. 696)
The Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] Chronicle (Mah-mvam-sa)) is primarily a history of Buddhism in Ceylon though it gives reliable information on political history. It is perhaps unjust to maintain that India had no sense of history whatever, but what interest she had in her own past was generally concentrated on the fabulous kings of a legendary golden age, rather than the great empires which had risen and fallen in historical times. (Basham, 1954, p. 44)
Literature and art reflected the lives of the ruling class along side those historical narratives of Buddha, as can be seen in the first example. Medieval revivals also attempted to rejoin these depictions through restorative works that demanded the attention of many to the idea of a foreign king effectively expressing the Sinhalese culture. (Holt, 1996, p. 41) the tradition is long standing in the region and reflections of this aesthetic alteration can be seen in most of the Theravada tradition, with and without the interference of colonialism, but mostly with. (Jackson, 2004, 219)
These two works show a demonstrative juxtaposition of the Theravada tradition as one that allowed both historical and current events to drive art and representation of relationships and culture. The faith is a highly human faith, that values human relationships and actions as well as historical creations of events that alter the coarse of human history and are capable of being shown as allegorical reactions to the world, to even the most modern of worshipers and viewers.
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