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Religion and Polity in Theravada Buddhism: Continuity and Change in a Great Tradition. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath Obeyesekere
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University of California, San Diego
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The Institutions of Established Culture and Social Change
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 626 - 639
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1979

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