05562cam a2200721Mi 4500 ocn830023837 20200709060117.0 m d cr |||||||nn|n 120628s2013 hiu obd 001 0 eng d LGG eng pn LGG OCLCO E7B OCLCA H9Z ORE P@U OCLCF N$T JSTOR YDXCP OCLCQ COO EBLCP OCLCQ OCL YDX OCLCQ JBG OCLCQ 959954381 960087796 968913577 9780824865771 (electronic bk.) 0824865774 (electronic bk.) 0824835611 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780824835613 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780824871444 0824871448 9780824835613 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 750817 (N$T) 22573/ctt62r1vc JSTOR a-cb--- BQ466 .H365 2013eb REL 017000 bisacsh REL007010 bisacsh 294.309596/09047 23 Harris, Ian Charles, author. Buddhism in a dark age : Cambodian monks under Pol Pot / Ian Harris. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2013. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Unraveling of the Buddhist state -- Buddhism and the origins of Cambodian communism -- Buddhism and Khmer communism : a shared conceptual terrain -- Dealing with monks -- Buddhist practice and material culture under the Khmer Rouge -- Monk mortality and the destruction of institutional Buddhism -- Aftermath : rebuilding the saṅgha under socialism. "This pioneering study of the fate of Buddhism during the communist period in Cambodia puts a human face on a dark period in Cambodia's history. It is the first sustained analysis of the widely held assumption that the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot had a centralized plan to liquidate the entire monastic order. Based on a thorough analysis of interview transcripts and a large body of contemporary manuscript material, it offers a nuanced view that attempts to move beyond the horrific monastic death toll and fully evaluate the damage to the Buddhist sangha under Democratic Kampuchea. Compelling evidence exists to suggest that Khmer Rouge leaders were determined to hunt down senior members of the pre-1975 ecclesiastical hierarchy, but other factors also worked against the Buddhist order. Buddhism in a Dark Age outlines a three-phase process in the Khmer Rouge treatment of Buddhism: bureaucratic interference and obstruction, explicit harassment, and finally the elimination of the obdurate and those close to the previous Lon Nol regime. The establishment of a separate revolutionary form of sangha administration constituted the bureaucratic phase. The harassment of monks, both individually and en masse, was partially due to the uprooting of the traditional monastic economy in which lay people were discouraged from feeding economically unproductive monks. Younger members of the order were disrobed and forced into marriage or military service. The final act in the tragedy of Buddhism under the Khmer Rouge was the execution of those monks and senior ecclesiastics who resisted. It was difficult for institutional Buddhism to survive the conditions encountered during the decade under study here. Prince Sihanouk's overthrow in 1970 marked the end of Buddhism as the central axis around which all other aspects of Cambodian existence revolved and made sense. And under Pol Pot the lay population was strongly discouraged from providing its necessary material support. The book concludes with a discussion of the slow re-establishment and official supervision of the Buddhist order during the People's Republic of Kampuchea period."--Project Muse. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Communism and Buddhism Cambodia History 20th century. Buddhist monks Cambodia History 20th century. Buddhism Cambodia History 20th century. RELIGION Comparative Religion. bisacsh RELIGION Buddhism History. bisacsh Buddhism. fast (OCoLC)fst00840028 Buddhist monks. fast (OCoLC)fst00840233 Communism and Buddhism. fast (OCoLC)fst00870464 Cambodia. fast (OCoLC)fst01207659 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Harris, Ian Charles. Buddhism in a dark age. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2013 (DLC) 2012025818 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3413496 ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10745624 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750817 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=750817 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqf7r Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780824865771/ EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3413496 ebrary EBRY ebr10745624 EBSCOhost EBSC 750817 Project MUSE MUSE muse17272 YBP Library Services YANK 10382787 YBP Library Services YANK 13201178 54704 54704