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Forest Recollections : Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand
Overview
During the first half of this century the forest of Thailand were home to wandering ascetic monks. They were Buddhists, but their brand of Buddhism did not copy the practices described in ancient doctrinal text. Combining interviews and biographies with an exhaustive knowledge of archival materials and a wide reading of ephemeral popular literature, kamala Tiyavanich documents the monastic lives of three generations of forest-dwelling ascetics and challenges the stereotype of state-centric Thai Buddhism.
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- ISBN-13: 9780824817817
- ISBN-10: 0824817818
- Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
- Publish Date: March 1997
- Dimensions: 9.18 x 6.16 x 1.03 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.36 pounds
- Page Count: 434
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