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Solias Mendis, Kı ̄ rti Śrı ̄ Ra ̄ jasiṃ ha and Väliviṭ a Saraṇ aṃ kara, wall painting at Kelaniya Rā jamahā Vihā ra, circa 1925-45. Photographed by author.
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The kingdoms of Kandy (now Sri Lanka) and Ayutthaya (now Thailand) were briefly connected across Indian Ocean waters in the mid-eighteenth century by Dutch East India Company (hereafter VOC) traders, leading to the importation of valuable Siamese Buddhist monks and their ordination lineage to the island. Two series of events related to the VOC's se...
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... are told that Väliviṭa Saraṇaṃkara taught the king not only "the doctrines of Buddhism," but also "the laws of the land." In the final section, we return to the dangerous friendship that played out between monk and king ( Figure 2). But let us first understand why forging maritime connections was a dangerous business before considering the dangers made possible by that connection. ...
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