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The New Face of Buddha: The fusion of religion and politics in contemporary Buddhism

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Schecter writes as a Time-Life Bureau Chief in Southeast Asia and a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University about Buddhism in the context of Southeast Asian politics and ideology. This is an introduction for American readers covering Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Ceylon, Vietnam and Japan. He examines the dynamics of Vietnamese Buddhism during the Vietnam War, and attributes many American failings in that war to an ignorance of Vietnamese Buddhism.

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Length 300 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint John Weatherhill Inc.
Released 1967
Identifier (ISBN) 8684977
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Jerrold L. Schecter is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Jerrold L. Schecter can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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