What, if anything, is Mahāyāna buddhism? Problems of definitions and classifications

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Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 355-405

  Silk, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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