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A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
Jaed Coffin
#UB9242
Paperback, 205 pages; 2008
$16.00
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A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants is the lovely, unaffected, and fascinating true story of the months Jaed Coffin—a half-Thai twenty-one- year-old, raised in America—spent as a monk in his mother's native village in Thailand. Coffin hoped his immersion in the ancient Buddhist way of life would help him to better understand his ancestors, and to resolve his many philosophical and spiritual questions. His unadorned yet poetic prose nimbly carries the reader along with him on his journey—to the heights of remote mountaintop temples, and to the depths of his benevolent, curious soul.
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