In the Cool Shade of Compassion

The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle

By Kamala Tiyavanich

$18.95
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Shambhala Publications
09/04/2018
Pages: 384
Size: 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN: 9781611806496
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This work ingeniously intermingles real-life stories about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buddhist monks in old Siam (today’s Thailand) with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries. Stories of giant snakes, bandits, boatmen, midwives, and guardian spirits collectively portray a Buddhist culture in all its imaginative and geographical brilliance. By juxtaposing these eyewitness accounts, Kamala 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.


This book was previously published under the title The Buddha in the Jungle.