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

Presents contemporary Burmese history with passion and empathy

Thailand and Southeast Asia continue to live with the consequences of what this stimulating

Professor of Southeast Asian History

The study begins by discussing various secular and religious approaches to the prevention of HIV/AIDS

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.