This turbulent priest: Contesting religious rights and the state in the Tibetan Shugden controversy

Human Rights in Global Perspective: Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 54-69

  Mills, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203506271     Document Type: Chapter

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