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The Buddhist ideal of feeling at home in all the quarters of the Cosmos is seldom fully realized in the everyday in Sri Lanka. Whenver the sinister powers have grown too strong and the situation of an individual, his family, or even of a village community gets too disturbing, a treatment by specialists is required.
In all world quarters at home, resentful against none, and well content with whatever may come, enduring perils undismayed, sole as the rhinoceros free do fare.
Sutta Nipata 42
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Fryba, M. (1982). Psychodrama Elements in Psychosis Treatment by Shamans of Sri Lanka. In: Pines, M., Rafaelsen, L. (eds) The Individual and the Group. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8154-9_42
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