History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine - Berkwitz, Stephen C. (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Southwest Missouri State University)

Offers the complete English translation of the Buddhist chronicle called the "Sinhala Thupavamsa", composed by Parakam Pandita in thirteenth-century Sri Lanka. This work also relates the mythological history of the Buddhas previous lives as a bodhisattva and concludes with a prediction about the future Buddha Maitreya.