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Acknowledgments The present work owes its origin to a course in Buddhist Philosophy I taught in the Department ofPhilosophy at the University ofHawaii during the spring semester of 1971 as a visiting faculty member. Since its completion, during the fall of the same year, many of my friends, both in Sri Lanka and in Hawaii, have read the manuscript and made excellent suggestions for improvement. To all of them I am deeply indebted. It is with a sense of great personal loss that I record the death of my teacher and friend, Professor G. P. Malalasekera, who had been a constant source ofinspiration to me since I began my undergraduate work at the University of Ceylon. He kindly consented to write a foreword to this volume which he did not live to see in print. I extend special thanks to my colleague Professor Prithwish Neogy, chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Hawaii, for providing me with the photograph that appears on the book's cover. I am grateful to Mrs. Floris Sakamoto for her ungrudging help in preparing the manuscript for the press. XVll ...

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