Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship remove blockages in the respiratory

remove blockages in the respiratory and circulatory systems

not least in regional diplomacy

’ (external reviewer)

may require a writer to spend months of patient research due to the complexity of sources in Thai

but in his heart is etched the memory of the seventeen members of his family who lost their lives

Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship remove blockages in the respiratoryI stayed (in the forest) for two nights. The first night, nothing happened. The second night, at about one or two in the morning, a tiger camewhich meant that I didnt get any sleep the whole night. I sat in meditation, scared stiff, while the tiger walked around and around my umbrella tent (klot). My body felt all frozen and numb. I started chanting,and the words come out like running water. All the old chants I had forgotten now came back to me,