Many Lives Migration Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand

and “social suffering” in some communities

Timely analysis of the Burmese political situation from independence in 1945 through the November 2010 elections and Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest

dominant narrative of Muslim discourse in Thailand

and canals played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past

Many Lives Migration Gathering Leaves and Lifting WordsTranslated by Meredith Borthwick "That night, the rain poured and wind howled, raindrops crashing like solid objects onto the ground and water. A passenger boat from Ban Phaen to Bangkok, packed with people, pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamour of the rain and strom" The boat capsizes in the torrent, and washed up on the shore the next morning are the sodden bodies of the many passengers who lost their lives. Thus begins M. R.