Fantastic read
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What a great book !!
It really makes you take a look around at your surrundings and see how lucky you really are. This book reflects the lifes of young novice monks.
The storys are of 10 young boys from very poor backgrounds, and have come from very poor areas in Thailand. Each story has something different, covering many heartbreaking problems from abusive parents,drugs,drink,loss of a parent. They are mostly from the farming community where they are made to work in the rice fields as soon as they can walk and carry things.
Some of the young boys in the stories are as young as 10 and where taking drugs. There seems to be a history of children sent to Bangkok at a really early age to work fro money to send home.
When there lives are so dire, or even one story where one boys nearly dies, Buddhism becomes there only hope of survival.
I must admit this book made me look at things differently.
If you want a different way of looking at Thailand & Buddhism please read this great book
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What the textbooks don't tell you!
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This is a fascinating book that gives a vivid a realistic account of novice monks in Thailand. Students of religion are accustomed to receiving the stereotypical textbook accounts of Buddhist monastic life, which are based on scriptural texts and idealised practice. Phra Peter Pannapadipo has researched and written the true stories of ten novice monks in Thailand, and provides valuable insights into their lifestyle, their reasons for joining their monasteries, and the problems they have in keeping Buddhist precepts. Phra Peter shows how the spiritual life is not usually the principal concern of the novices whose stories he recounts. More typically they join to escape poverty and to further their education. For anyone who wants to know what Buddhist monastic life is really like, Little Angels is to be thoroughly recommended.
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