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Buddhist Salvation Armies as Vanguards of the Sasana: Sorcerer Societies in Twentieth-Century Burma

Article describing mid-twentieth-century Burmese weikza associations organized as hierarchical armies that defended the sasana and anticipated a Liberation Era.

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Author
Thomas Nathan Patton
Type
Book
Written
2016
Edition
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press / Duke University Press (The Journal of Asian Studies 75:4)
Language
English
Tradition
Theravada

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