Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot Genders “The book

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Professor Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs has developed and perfected the methods and materials used in this volume over her many years of Thai language instruction at the University of Washington

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot Genders “The bookThis pioneering study of the fate of Buddhism during the communist period in Cambodia puts a human face on a dark period in Cambodias 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 orers a nuanced view that attempts to