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    <title>Encyclopaedia of Buddhism</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Malalasekera, G. P. (Gunapala Piyasena)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1899-1973</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dhirasekara, Jotiya.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Vīraratna, W. G.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Buddhist Council of Ceylon</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Ceylon</namePart>
    <namePart>Ministry of Cultural Affairs.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Sri Lanka</namePart>
    <namePart>Bauddha Kaṭayutu Depārtamēntuva.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Govt. of Ceylon</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1961-&lt;2004&gt;</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="start">1961</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="end">9999</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>v. &lt;1, pts. 1-4; v. 2, pts. 1-4; v. 3, pts. 1-4; v. 4, pts. 1-4; v. 5, pts. 1-4; v. 6, pt. 2-4; v. 7, pt. 1-2 in 23&gt; : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. + suppl. &lt;v. 1&gt;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>v. 1, fasc. 1. A--Acala -- fasc. 2. Acala--Ākaṅkheyya Sutta -- fasc. 3. Ākaṅkheyya Sutta--Anabhirati -- fasc. 4. Anabhisamaya Sutta--Aoki, Bunkyō -- v. 2, fasc. 1. Āpa--Asita Devala -- fasc. 2. Asita Devala--Atthaka Vagga -- fasc. 3. Atthahakula Sutta--Azuchi-Mondō -- fasc. 4. Ba--Bhārhut -- v. 3, fasc. 1. Bhārini-deva--Bodaishinron-kenmon -- fasc. 2. Bode--Budalaviṭṭhi -- fasc. 3. Buddha--Burlingame -- fasc. 4. Burma--Caura-vidhvaṃsana -- v. 4, fasc. 1. Causality--Cittavisuddhi -- fasc. 2. Cittaviśuddhipprakaraṇa--Democracy -- fasc. 3. Demonology--Dhammadhātu -- v. 5, fasc. 1. Earth--Extra-sensory perception -- fasc. 3. Good and evil--Hung-i -- fasc. 4. Hungi-i--Japan -- v. 6, fasc. 2. Kāśyapīya--Lobha -- fasc. 3. Lobha--Mahāvaṃsa -- fasc. 4. Mahāvaṃsa--Minayeff, J.P. -- v. 7, fasc. 1. Mind--Nyāyapravesa -- v. 7, fasc. 2. Odantapuri-Petavatthu, Vimānavatthu</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by G.P. Malalasekera.</note>
  <note>Vol. 3, pt. 4; v. 4, pts. 1-2: editor-in-chief, Jotiya Dhirasekera.</note>
  <note>Vol. 4, pts. 3-4; v. 5, pts. 1-4; v. 6, pts. &lt;2-4&gt;; v. 7, pt. 1: editor-in-chief, W.G. Weeraratne.</note>
  <note>Vol. 3, pts. 3-4; v. 4, pts. 1-4; v. 5, pts. 1-4; v. 6, pts. &lt;2-4&gt; published by the Govt. of Sri Lanka.</note>
  <note>Vol. 6, pts. &lt;2-4&gt;; v. 7, pts. 1-2 -:  published by the Dept. of Buddhist Affairs, Ministry of Buddhasāsana.</note>
  <note>"The compilation of an Encyclopaedia of Buddhism in the English language was one of the several undertakings of the Laṅkā Buaddha Maṇḍalaya (Buddhist Council of Ceylon) ... in 1955 ... [It was] transferred to [the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in 1956]."</note>
  <note>Issued in parts.</note>
  <note>Somes vols. have supplements.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Buddhism</topic>
    <topic>Encyclopedias</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BQ128 .E6 1961</classification>
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