The extreme orient: The construction of ‘tantrism’ as a category in the orientalist imagination

Religion

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-146

  Urban, Hugh B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 10644283374     PISSN: 0048721X     EISSN: 10961151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reli.1997.0097     Document Type: Article

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