What the Buddha Never Taught - Softcover
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An engaging, often humorous account of a young, well-traveled journalist's intitiation into the Pah Nauchet monastery, deep in the jungles of Thailand. By turns iconoclastic and inspiring, What the Buddha Never Taught takes readers on a remarkable pilgrimage, in which author Tim Ward took his vow, shaved his head and eyebrows, and struggled to obey the 227 precepts originally set down by Buddha over 2,500 years ago.
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About the Author
Tim Ward lived in Asia for 6 years and has written three books about his experiences in India, Thailand, China and Tibet, including What the Buddha Never Taught and Arousing the Goddess. He is also a professional communications consultant workings with various international development organizations, and is president of Intermedia Communications Training, based in Washington D.C. His fourth book, Savage Breast: Travels with my Anima Around the Mediterranean is due out in 2005.
From Publishers Weekly
According to Ward's delightful account of a stay in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, there are many things that the Buddha never taught. One is the extreme rigor of the Pah Nanachat monastery, involving rising at 3 a.m. for chanting, walking on gravel roads in bare feet and eating only one meal a day. Another, Ward concludes, is that all this self-denial and sacrifice is ultimately hollow. The final lesson is the redemptive power of laughter. Ward, a Canadian journalist, traveled around Asia for six years, eventually winding up at Pah Nanachat, which was built to spread Theravada Buddhism to farangs (or non-Thais). Among the motley crew the author finds at the monastery are an ex-gospel singer from England, a former accountant from China and a former real estate millionaire from Chicago. The head monk is an Australian who used to play jazz guitar in his last life. The book is Ward's affectionate, and often very humorous, account of his sojourn in this place of meditation and renunciation. The volume could have been improved by some sharp editing, but its little redundancies and repetitions help capture the often monotonous life of the monk.
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- PublisherCelestial Arts
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0890876878
- ISBN 13 9780890876879
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages242
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