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Experience your own Awareness: A Conversation on Chan (Zen) Buddhism with Bill Porter

By Buddhism Now on 16 August 2015 • ( 0 )

Bill PorterA Conversation on Zen Buddhism with Bill Porter

The University of Arizona

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