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Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley. By Jiemin Bao. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. xvi, 185 pp. ISBN: 9781439909553 (paper).

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Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley. By Jiemin Bao. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. xvi, 185 pp. ISBN: 9781439909553 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2019

Brooke Schedneck
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Rhodes College
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schedneckb@rhodes.edu
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 982 - 984
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 

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