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Thai Buddhism and the Cold War: Earliest Encounters Thai Buddhism and the Cold War: Earliest Encounters
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The Rules of Engagement: A Burmese Laboratory The Rules of Engagement: A Burmese Laboratory
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Engagement’s Rationale: An Emerging Buddhist World Engagement’s Rationale: An Emerging Buddhist World
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Engagement’s Beginnings Engagement’s Beginnings
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One The Buddhist World and the United States at the Onset of the Cold War, 1941–1954
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Published:October 2017
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Abstract
This chapter talks about how the Buddhism of mainland Southeast Asia, the Theravada form of that religion, which is predominant everywhere in the region but Vietnam, interacted in significant ways with Japan's strategy in the Second World War. Most Japanese themselves were nominally Buddhists, though of the Mahayana school (like most Vietnamese). They appealed to sentiments of religious fraternity as part of their crusade to “liberate” the region from European colonialism and replace it with their own colonial system: a Greater East Asian “co-prosperity sphere” dedicated primarily to benefiting Japan. The chapter shows how Thailand had quickly yielded to the superior strength of the Japanese forces and entered into a strategic alliance.
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