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Beauty and Aesthetic Experience in Theravāda Buddhism

Paolo EuronFaculty of Arts, Department of Western Languages, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 305-320 | Published online: 11 Oct 2017

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