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Buddha in the Crown : Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka.

Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and eastAsia, was...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holt, John Clifford
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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