The buddhist icon and the modern gaze

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 768-813

  Faure, Bernard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61149565367     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448893     Document Type: Article

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