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Wayward Distractions : Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand /

When more than 93 per cent of the citizens of one country profess a single religion, as Thais do Buddhism, and when that religion is deeply integrated into national institutions and ideologies, it becomes tempting to think of the religion as a textual, institutional, cultural and conceptual whole. B...

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Autor principal: McDaniel, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kyoto, Japan : Kyoto University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a This page was intentionally left blank -- 9. Encountering Corpses: Notes on Zombies and the Living Dead in Buddhist Southeast Asia -- This page was intentionally left blank -- 10. Buddhist ""Nuns"" (mae chi) and the Teaching of Pali in Contemporary Thailand -- This page was intentionally left blank -- Bibliography -- This page was intentionally left blank -- Index 
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