Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

By April D. Hughes

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How the figure of the Bodhisattva and of the Wheel-Turning Monarch merged for political advantage when Buddhism left India.

About: Medieval Buddhism

Published in 2021 by The New Books Network.

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