Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community by Nancy Eberhardt

Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community

Nancy Eberhardt

208 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigen...

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