Sri Lanka and South-East Asia: political, religious, and cultural relations from a.d.c. 1000 to c. 1500. By W. M. Sirisena. pp. xiv, 186, 8 pl., map. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1978. Guilders 68.

This paper is a historical study of the mutual exchanges in the religious and cultural traditions, in the context of Buddhism between India and Sri Lanka. As a powerful medium of trans-acculturation, Buddhism enriched several countries especially of South and South-East Asia. Though Asoka used Buddhism as a unifying instrument of royal power, he was considered as the ruler par excellence who ruled as per dhamma and righteousness ensuring peace and harmony in the kingdom. He was emulated by several rulers in the Buddhist world including Sri Lanka. Royal patronage of the Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lanka was reciprocated by support for the institution of kingship. Kingship played an important role in the political unification of the country, whereas Buddhism provided the ground for ideological consolidation. The Indian impact is clearly visible in all aspects of Sri Lankan life and identity-religion (Buddhism), art architecture, literature, language. However the culture and civilization which developed in the island nation had its own distinctive variant despite retaining the Indian flavour.

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Three new synonyms of Solenostoma truncatum (Nees) R.M.Schust. ex Váňa et D.G. Long

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.231.3.8 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 231 (3) ◽

pp. 295 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wei Li ◽

JIŘÍ VÁŇA

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

East Asia ◽

New Guinea ◽

South East Asia ◽

Northern Australia ◽

Leaf Form ◽

New Synonyms ◽

Marginal Cells

Solenostoma truncatum (Nees 1830: 29) R.M. Schust. ex Váňa & D.G.Long (2009: 509) is widely distributed and the commonest Solenostoma-species in south-east Asia, reaching from Himalayas, India and Srí Lanka to China, Japan, Micronesia, Samoa, New Guinea and northern Australia (Queensland). The species is very variable: its leaf form varies from subquadrate-rotund, ovate, ovate-ligulate to rarely ligulate, the cell texture is also relatively variable, but the marginal leaf-cells are mostly ± equally thickened in 1–2 or more rows, and the cuticle is usually at least minutely verrucose, rarely nearly smooth. Perianth is shortly to longly exserted, fusiform or ovate, perianth mouth is contracted or wide, crenulate, sometimes with ciliate marginal cells. Many synonyms were published for S. truncatum.

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China Studies in South and South East Asia: A Comparative Perspective Through Sri Lanka and Thailand

China Studies in South and Southeast Asia ◽

10.1142/9789813235250_0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 193-224

Author(s):

Reena Marwah

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

East Asia ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

South East Asia ◽

China Studies

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Maternal and Child Health Situation in South East Asia

Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ◽

10.3126/njog.v7i1.8825 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 5-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tulsi Ram Bhandari

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Sri Lanka ◽

Child Health ◽

East Asia ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

Millennium Development Goals ◽

South East Asia ◽

Maternal Child Health ◽

Development Goals ◽

And Child Health

Attaining maternal and child health goals remains a challenge to the world. There is need to collect and manage reliable information on maternal and child health for resource generation and proper allocation. This is useful for assessing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. This paper aims to assess the maternal and child health status in South East Asia Region.Literature search from PubMed, Medline, Lancet, WHO and Google web pages published from 2000 to 2012 was the method adopted for review. All the related references were cited and organized by using referencing software Endnote.Out of the South East Asian countries Thailand, South Korea, Sri-Lanka and Maldives have better maternal child health indicators. South Korea, Sri-Lanka and Maldives follow Thailand in almost indicators. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and East Timor have poor indicators and are at the bottom of the group.In the South East Asia, there is wide divergence in socio-economic and health status among the countries. More than one-third of maternal and child deaths of global mortality occurs in this region. Many countries in this region are unlikely to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 even if maternal child health is made the priority agenda of all the countries. Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology / Vol 7 / No. 1 / Issue 13 / Jan- June, 2012 / 5-10 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njog.v7i1.8825

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