Playing with karma: a buddhist board game
Religious games have inspired some of the most popular board games of the modern era, but they have only recently garnered the attention of scholars of religion. This article examines a seventeenth-century Buddhist board game called Selection of Buddhas that was originally designed in response to th...
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Year: 2014, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-28 |
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