Download or read book The History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine written by Parākrama Paṇḍita and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the complete English translation of the Buddhist chronicle called the 'Sinhala Thupavamsa', composed by Parākrama Paṇḍita in 13th 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.