| #733938 in Books | University of Hawaii Press | 1997-03-01 | 1997-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.88 x6.14l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 434 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I really enjoyed this book|By Cenaculum|I really enjoyed this book. Despite having (I thought) a fairly wide general of knowledge about Buddhism, I really didn't know anything about these forest monks in particular. My interest is mostly with research into ascetic practices of Hindu renouncers, and this book gave me a lot of new material to consider. In some ways it is a s||An unusual, enjoyable, thought-provoking and important book-- "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"
Kamala's book is a noteworthy, readable contribution to Buddhist studies and belongs in every university library.-- "Religious S
"I stayed [in the forest] for two nights. The first night, nothing happened. The second night, at about one or two in the morning, a tiger came--which meant that I didn't get any sleep the whole night. I sat in meditation, scared stiff, while the tiger walked around and around my umbrella tent (klot). My body felt all frozen and numb. I started chanting, and the words came out like running water. All the old chants I had forgotten now came back to me, thanks bo...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand | Tiyavanich Kamala. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
