Buddhism in a dark age
Subtitle: Cambodian monks under Pol Pot
By: Ian Harris
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780824835613
Subjects: Buddhism; History; Buddhist monks; Communism and Buddhism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unraveling of the Buddhist state; title: Buddhism and the origins of Cambodian communism; title: Buddhism and Khmer communism : a shared conceptual terrain; title: Dealing with monks; title: Buddhist practice and material culture under the Khmer Rouge; title: Monk mortality and the destruction of institutional Buddhism; title: Aftermath : rebuilding the saṅgha under socialism.