Missed opportunities: Buddhism and the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka and Tibet

Religion and Peacebuilding

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 69-92

  Neumaier, Eva K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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