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Cover illustration: Gangs dkar (Minyag Gongkar, Ch. Gongga shan 貢嘎山). Slide photo, by Monica Esposito
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bianchi, Ester, editor. | Shen, Weirong, 1962- editor.
Title: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the ages / edited by Ester Bianchi, Weirong Shen.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Studies on East Asian religions, 2452-0098 ; vol. 5 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021032834 (print) | LCCN 2021032835 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004467958 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004468375 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Buddhism–Tibet Region–History. | Buddhism–China–History. | China–Relations–Tibet Region. | Tibet Region–Relations–China.
Classification: LCC BQ7576 .S565 2021 (print) | LCC BQ7576 (ebook) | DDC 294.30951–dc23
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