Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship Asian Studies Review

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Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship Asian Studies ReviewI 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,