Thanh Dia Palestina Thoi Chua Giesu [“Holy Palestine in the Time of Jesus.”]

(VIETNAM)

Saigon, University Press, 1963

Colored map, with text in Vietnamese.

Published by the Theological University Seminary of Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam. From the timeline posted on the Public Broadcasting System’s “Vietnam Online” section of The American Experience: Tensions between Buddhists and the Diem government are further strained as Diem, a Catholic, removes Buddhists from several key government positions and replaces them with Catholics. Buddhist monks protest Diem’s intolerance for other religions and the measures he takes to silence them. In a show of protest, Buddhist monks start setting themselves on fire in public places.