books.google.ca - Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Buddha_in_the_Crown_Avalokitesvara_in_th.html?id=aT3AMR8g1gEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBuddha in the Crown : Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka