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The Buddha Party: How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism By John Powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv + 370 pp. £28.49.
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The Buddha Party: How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism By John Powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv + 370 pp. £28.49.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
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