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Doctrine, Practice, and Belief in Theravāda Buddhism

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Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes. By SpiroMelford E.. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. xiv, 510 pp. Appendix, References, Index. $17.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

F. K. Lehman
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , February 1972 , pp. 373 - 380
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972

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1 Schärer, H., Ngaju Religion (Needham, R., translator), (The Hague; M. Nijhoff, 1963)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Schärer, H., Der Totenkult der Ngadju Dayak in Sūd-Borneo, (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1966).Google Scholar

2 See Dumont, L. and Pocock, D., “For a sociology of India,” Constributions to Indian Sociology, 4 (1960) 82–89Google Scholar, and Dumont, L., Homo Hierarchicus, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).Google Scholar

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19 Op. cit.

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