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Ford, Eugene Brassel.

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Cold War Monks: An International History of Buddhism, Politics and Regionalism in Thailand and Southeast Asia, 1941--1976.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cold War Monks: An International History of Buddhism, Politics and Regionalism in Thailand and Southeast Asia, 1941--1976./
Author:	Ford, Eugene Brassel.
Description:	382 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-12A(E).
Subject:	History, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3525153
ISBN:	9781267572714

Cold War Monks: An International History of Buddhism, Politics and Regionalism in Thailand and Southeast Asia, 1941--1976.
Ford, Eugene Brassel.

Cold War Monks: An International History of Buddhism, Politics and Regionalism in Thailand and Southeast Asia, 1941--1976. - 382 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2012.

This is a study of the role of Buddhism in the Cold War from 1941 to 1976. It reveals the importance of Buddhism in the international history of the Southeast Asia region and of U.S. foreign policy-making towards the five Buddhist nations there. It also uncovers a previously undocumented international dimension in the modern history of Thai Buddhism. Using both Thai and English-language sources, the dissertation describes the postwar coalescence of a world Buddhist community. New institutions such as the World Fellowship of Buddhists played a role, as did the Sixth Buddhist Synod, convened in Burma in 1954, and subsequent international gatherings of monks in other Southeast Asian countries. The efforts of the CIA-funded Asia Foundation to influence the Buddhist establishments of Thailand and its neighbors as part of U.S. Cold War strategy in the region were also important.

ISBN: 9781267572714Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

Cold War Monks: An International History of Buddhism, Politics and Regionalism in Thailand and Southeast Asia, 1941--1976.
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520 $a Buddhism is a notionally world-renouncing faith. But from the 1940s and especially from the early 1960s, dissident activist monks in such neighboring countries as Cambodia and South Vietnam increasingly involved Buddhism in the secular political realm, following colonial-era precedents. Meanwhile Burmese monks, for their part, also adopted a relatively international approach. A contrasting pattern prevailed in uncolonized Thailand. There, before and after World War Two, a strong domestic consensus among lay and clerical leaderships called on Thai monks to refrain from dissident political activism---and to passively support a conservative status quo centered on the monarchy. At the same time, an insular posture toward the outside world complemented the conservatism of the Thai Buddhist establishment.
520 $a The principles of Thai Buddhist conservatism shifted as a result of the Cold War. In the face of repeated challenges, including from the controversial liberal and internationally-oriented activist abbot Phimolatham, the Thai hierarchy enforced and even strengthened its prohibition on dissident political activity among Thai monks. Phimolatham was jailed in 1962; his emulators in the 1970s also faced repression. However, the barriers against a non-oppositional, internationally-oriented, political activist role for Thai clergy grew steadily weaker, as the Buddhist hierarchy's international consciousness also grew---the result of both Asia Foundation programming and indigenous Thai initiative. Convergence of those two processes culminated in the rise of Kittivudho, a notorious rightwing Thai monk who in the 1970s even sanctioned killing in defense of nation, religion and king.
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