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Tuesday, 17 August 2004

The Buddha in the Jungle ::

There’s a good review of Kamala Tiyavinich’s The Buddha in the Jungle at RALPH. It’s a collection of 44 short stories of the contrasting experiences of Buddhist monks and Westerners in late 19th- and early 20th-century Siam.

The reviewer mentions some of my favorites of the tales. In one, a young novice monk ventures into the forest alone and faces his fear of tigers in a series of very close encounters. In another, a group of Westerners hear tigers and flee their camp at night. In another, a monk gives a Dharma talk to an ill-tempered elephant—after which, the elephant no longer terrorizes the locals.

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