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Coomaraswamy

/ kuːˌmɑːrəˈswɑːmɪ /

noun

  1. CoomaraswamyAnanda (Kentish)18771947MCeyloneseHISTORY: historian Ananda ( Kentish ). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The book also won the Association of Asian Studies Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy book prize.

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Radhika Coomaraswamy, a member of the commission, described the sexual violence taking place in the conflict as being "as bad as it gets".

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Commissioner Radhika Coomaraswamy said the presence of Eritrean troops in Ethiopia showed not only “an entrenched policy of impunity, but also continued support for and tolerance of such violations by the federal government.”

Was the depiction of the Buddha as a human being the legacy of Greek influence in Bactria, or was there, as Coomaraswamy believes, a now lost origin story of the first Buddha in India, which was then adapted by Greek-trained craftsmen?

The other problem with representing the Buddha in human form, as the great Sri Lankan art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy points out in his 1918 essay “Buddhist Primitives,” is that early Buddhism was disdainful of art itself.

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