Author: Daniel Reid
Genre: Non-fiction, Health
This is a book that deals a gentle, easily read, but extremely informative introduction to Taoist medicine, also known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Good read, valuable information.
Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in the Twentieth-century Thailand
Author: Kamala Tiyavanich
Genre: non-fiction
Date Finished: July 2006
It seems that in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia there was a tradition of forest monks, practicing Buddhists who believed that they needed to wander through the deep, dangerous, uncharted forests of south east Asia, facing their fears and meditating to gain enlightenment. This book documents the ending of this tradition which coincided with the deforestization of Thailand in the mid-1950s, through the use of memoirs and other primary sources.
Genre: non-fiction
Date Finished: July 2006
It seems that in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia there was a tradition of forest monks, practicing Buddhists who believed that they needed to wander through the deep, dangerous, uncharted forests of south east Asia, facing their fears and meditating to gain enlightenment. This book documents the ending of this tradition which coincided with the deforestization of Thailand in the mid-1950s, through the use of memoirs and other primary sources.
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