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The Buddha in the Jungle

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An evocative collection of tales told by Buddhist monks in Thailand Real life stories about 19th and early 20th century Buddhist monks in Thailand are ingeniously intermingled with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries. By juxposing these eyewitness accounts, the author presents a new and vivid picture of Buddhism as it was lived and the natural environments in which the Buddha's teaching were practiced.

Table of Contents:
List of Maps and IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThai names and Romanization 1. The Palelai Buddha2. A Stork in a Snare3. A Muslim, His Goats, and a Bodhi Tree4. Matsi, the Bodhisat's Wife5. Midnight Visitors6. When in Doubt, Do What Dogs Do7. Dogs, Cats, and Birds8. Paddle Your Own Canoe9. A Dog Can Be a Bodhisat10. Venerable Grandfather Edd11. Two Legs Monastery12. Idol or Guide?13. Venerable Father Dark Eyes14. Big Buddha, Tough Hunter15. The Boatman and the Bandit Monk16. Tending Water Buffaloes17. Scarecrows and Baby-Sitters18. Abbots and Bandits19. Bandits and the Practice of Gratitude20. An Elephant on a Rampage21. How to Tame Elephants22. A Bodhisat Elephant23. Teaching Precepts to an Elephant24. Lord Buddha and King Cobra25. A Teak Wallah Meets Snakes26. Snakes, Guns, and Guardian Spirits27. Temple Boy and Spitting Cobra28. Kill Insects, Clean Latrines29. The Forest Cemetery at Wat Saket30. Corpses and Carrion Eaters31. The Oldest Midwife32. Dhamma from Grandmothers33. Tigers and Crocodiles34. White-Robed Renunciants35. Tap Tao Cave36. Falling Mindfully37. Meeting the Tiger in Silence38. Sisterhood of the Yellow Robe39. Jesus and the Future Buddha40. The Compassionate Arahant41. Ajan Inkhong, Master Painter42. Medicine Monks43. Backward or Enlightened?44. The Green Buddha of the Grotto GlossaryIllustration creditsReferences

About the Author :
Kamala Tiyavanich is a Thai Buddhist and the author of Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

Review :
A delightful read..This is an important and lovely book which is easy and fun to read but carries some important messages. More than any conventional work of history or anthropology, this book conveys a very tangible sense of what the landscape was like, how life was lived, and how the monkhood fit together with nature and with society. This wonderful book, produced with care and beautiful simplicity, deals with the variety of Theravada Buddhism practiced in Thailand. But its appeal is broader. It serves as a useful counterweight to what might be called the Kitsilano school of Buddhism. A heart-warming narrative..The Buddha in the Jungle captures the most authentic expression of the Thai Theravada Buddhism in which wisdom, inner repose and freedom of being takes central place for the monks. These stories of monks in Thailand during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries give a remarkable picture if the lives of monks and the practice of Buddhism in earlier times..[A] fascinating book.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780295983721
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 0295983728
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 404
  • Weight: 435 gr


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