The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

432 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion medium-paced
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The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the co...

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