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Battling the Buddha of Love : A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built /

"This ethnography explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as they worked to build the world's tallest statue as a multi-million dollar gift to India"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Falcone, Jessica Marie, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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