A scholarly study ennobled by a love for both Christianity and Buddhism View(s):Writing a preface for this book, Fr. Elizabeth is an academic, scholar in Buddhism, historian, writer, and promoter of understanding among religions, particularly between Buddhism and Christianity. Her visit to Sri Lanka in 1986 as a recipient of a World Council of Churches’ scholarship was to study Buddhism. After her initial exposure to Buddhist studies, Elizabeth continued in the same postgraduate institute as a doctoral researcher studying, under the guidance of Professor Y. Karunadasa and (the late) Dr Ananda W.P. (Elizabeth’s work was later published in Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series, under the title, ‘Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter’ (2006).

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