A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
by
Jaed Coffin
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0306815265
ISBN-13
9780306815263
Publisher
Hachette Books
Imprint
Da Capo Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 8th, 2008
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
228 grams
Dimensions
20.80 x 13.60 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
BuddhismReligious life & practiceTravel writing
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A simple story of a rain season in Thailand and a young man at the intersection of two cultures
Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England''s privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother''s native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain season--receiving alms in the streets in saffron robes; bathing in the canals; learning to meditate in a mountaintop hut; and falling in love with Lek, a beautiful Thai woman who comes to represent the life he can have if he stays. Part armchair travel, part coming-of-age story, this debut work transcends the memoir genre and ushers in a brave new voice in American nonfiction.
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