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Language: en
Pages: 384
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Kodansha
This expanded edition of the highly acclaimed investigation of Zen teaching in America, by the founder and editor of America's first Buddhist magazine, lays bar
Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-12 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhis
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
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