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Seeing Chen-Yen Buddhism: Traditional Scholarship and the Vajrayāna in China

@article{Orzech1989SeeingCB,
  title={Seeing Chen-Yen Buddhism: Traditional Scholarship and the Vajrayāna in China},
  author={Charles D. Orzech},
  journal={History of Religions},
  year={1989},
  volume={29},
  pages={87 - 114},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162235701}
}
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