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Book Review: Neither Monk Nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism - Buddhistdoor Global Senior Buddhologist Richard Jaffe engages in a systematic and comprehensive study of Japanese Buddhism’s most remarkable phenomenon

BDG feature: Book Review: Neither Monk Nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism

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