Buddhist materiality : a cultural history of objects in Japanese Buddhism

✍ Scribed by Fabio Rambelli

Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 408
Series: Asian religions & cultures
Category: Library

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