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Record W3117134838 · doi:10.4324/9780203143964-13

Buddha for our time: images of a Sri Lankan culture hero

2013· book-chapter· en· W3117134838 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Clifford Holt

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Architectural Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGautama BuddhaHEROSri lankaBuddhismArtAncient historyLiteratureHistoryPhilosophySouth asiaTheology

Abstract

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In 1977, after years of failed socialism and the nationalization of the economy, a newly elected government of Sri Lanka with a pro-Western diplomatic tilt jumpstarted what was avowedly championed as a capitalistic “open economy.” The new government initiated large-scale development schemes, including the construction of several reservoirs and irrigation projects by Britain, Sweden, Germany, and Canada. Other plans included establishing free-trade zones and nurturing what would become the spectacular growth of the nation’s tourist industry. The consequence of the “open economy” was rapid social change, particularly in the Sinhala regions of the country. Westerners seemed to swarm over the island. In the following essay, I reflect on how social change impacts religious culture, specifically focusing on how this change registered at the most important ritual and pilgrimage site for Sinhala Buddhists: the Dalada Maligava (“Temple of the Tooth-Relic”) in Kandy, the last of the traditional royal capitals. I also observe how social change in Sri Lanka is sanctioned by its rationalized associations with the Buddha.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.011
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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