During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made
extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to
end the fighting. They hoped to fashion a neutralist government to
broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans.
In the first study in English of this vitally important mass
movement, Robert J. Topmiller describes Buddhist efforts to create
a non-aligned Third Force. He explores South Vietnamese attitudes
toward the war, the insurgency, and U.S. intervention, and lays
bare internal dissension in the U.S. military. Far from being
ineffective or weak, the Buddhist peace movement caused a crisis
within the United States government. The Lotus Unleashed is one of
the few studies to illuminate the impact of internal Vietnamese
politics on U.S. decision-making and to examine the power of a
nonviolent movement to confront a violent superpower.
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