Landscape Aesthetics and Environmentalism: Some Observations on the Representation of Nature in Buddhist and Western ArtFootnote1

1. This is the revised version of a paper originally presented to the Ecology and Buddhism in the Knowledge-based Society Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, 25–27 May 2006.

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