The Buddha in the jungle
Book Details
Author(s)Kamala Tiyavanich
ISBN / ASIN974957527X
ISBN-139789749575277
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,298,245
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In "The Buddha in the Jungle", real-life stories about 19th and early 20th century Buddhist monks in Thailand are ingeniously intermingled with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries. The stories tell of giant snakes, bandits, boatmen, midwives, and guardian spirits and collectively portray a Buddhist culture in all its imaginative and geographical concreteness. By juxtaposing these eyewitness accounts, Kimala Tiyavanich presents a new and vivid picture of Buddhism as it was lived and of the natural environments in which the Buddha's teachings were practiced.

