BUDDHIST NUNS IN TAIWAN AND SRI LANKA: A critique of the feminist perspective

Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka: A critique of the feminist perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-226

  Cheng, Wei Yi ^a  

^a HSUAN CHUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203966518     Document Type: Book

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