岐阜市立女子短期大学研究紀要第54輯（平成17年3月）
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| 神 谷 信 明 |
| Nobuaki KAMIYA |
Abstract
The Sinhalese folk play, as it exists in the villages today, is still
so closely associated with the ritualistic practices of the folk religion.
At one end are the elaborate ceremonies connected with the worship and
propitiation of the numerous deities that control diseases, bring good or
bad luck to the crops, and govern natural phenomena, and at the other end
are the plays approximating, in varying degrees, to drama.
I give a
report for about my investigation of folk religion at the southern part of
Sri Lanka from 22 to30 on October in 2004.
Key words : Buddhism, pirit,folk religion