Saturday 30 June 2012

NOBLE FREINDSHIP - TRAVELS OF A BUDDHIST MONK - KHANTIPALO







RATING:B-

Interesting tale of the travels of a monk at the early stages of the Western world's discovery of Buddhism. I particularly tuned in to the Bodh Gaya information. On page 95, it gave a quote from an author I admire concerning the 'TV, radio, newspaper, speakers' now appearing in city monasteries. Well, I do not live in a monastery, but I do not use three of those four!

I was smiling to hear of familiar places to me near the end of the book - Stanmore being a railway station I have often been thru and the Blue Mountains being where my son and I took our last shared vacation together.