Currents and countercurrents : Korean influences on the east asian buddhist traditions.

Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic m...

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Otros Autores: Buswell, Robert E., Jr., ed
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Publicado: Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
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