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The learned monk as a comic figure: on reading a Buddhist Vinaya as Indian literature

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Schopen, G. The learned monk as a comic figure: on reading a Buddhist Vinaya as Indian literature. J Indian Philos 35, 201–226 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-007-9019-3

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