Cold War monks : Buddhism and America's secret strategy in Southeast Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ford, Eugene Brassel (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Buddhism and politics > Thailand. Buddhism and politics > Southeast Asia. Buddhism > Thailand > History. Buddhism > Southeast Asia > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The Buddhist world and the United States at the onset of the Cold War, 1941--1954
Washington formulates a Buddhist policy, 1954--1957
Thailand and the international Buddhist arena, 1956--1962
Reforming the monks : the Cold War and clerical education in Thailand and Laos, 1954--1961
Thailand and the international response to the 1963 Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam
Enforcing the code : South Vietnam's "struggle movement" and the limits of Thai Buddhist conservatism
Thailand's Buddhist hierarchy confronts its challengers, 1967--1975
The rage of Thai Buddhism, 1975--1980
Conclusion : from Byoto to Kittivudho.