Rooted in Nature: Ecological Ethics in Traditional Vietnamese Folklore

Tuan Viet Cao, CM

In Religion, Culture, and Ecological Flourishing in Asian Contexts. Edited by Anthony Le Duc. Bangkok: ARC, 2025
pp. 188–201

DOI: 10.62461/TCCM110125

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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