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CONTENTS

Buddhism; An Unorthodox Interpretation

Religious Aspect of Buddhism

Reason and Intuition in Buddhism

Buddhist Stories and Modem Psychology

Occultism Invades the Buddhist Temple

Tantrism in Ceylon

The Peace Movement in Asia

The New Humanism

The World in Twenty Years

Our Cultural Problems and Anthropology

Intolerance—an Aspect of Cultural Conflict

Romanticism in, Politics

The Lanka of the Ramayana

Basic Aspects of Sinhalese Culture

Tagore and Ceylon

Sinhalese Literature

The Classical Culture and Medieval Literature

The Russian Novel

A View of Life in Chekov’s Stories

Nationalisation of Education
Influence of English on Sinhalese Literature

A Sculptor of Promise

Reahsm in Buddhist Literature

Index

PREFACE

          Most of these essays, short studies and sketches appeared in Annuals published in Ceylon, India and the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1963. The others are appearing for the first time in this publication.

          I thank Mr. Reggie Siriwardena for reading these essays and making many corrections and Tisara Poth Prakasakayo for publishing them in book form.

Martin Wickramasinghe

Nawala,

Rajagiriya,

1-5-1964.

FOREWORD

          I have read these essays of my friend Martin Wickramasinghe with great interest and apprecia­tion, and commend them to all readers in the Western as well as the Eastern world. For the former especially there is no greater need than a better understanding of the world-outlooks of the peoples of Asia; and here we have an enlightened Buddhist telling us of his reactions to Russian and West European literature, to modern education, science and learning. With this book we can all, as it were, sit in a basket chair at Nawala (Rajagiriya) and enjoy the conversation of one of the most active minds of contemporary Ceylon.

Joseph Needham

Fellow and President
of Caius College, Cambridge

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