Coffin Jaed:
A Chant To Soothe Wild Elephants
A Memoir
The Perseus Books Group (United States), 2008
Paperback, 224 pages
Size: 210x140 mm
ISBN: 9780306815263
ISBN-10: 0306815265
List price: £9.99
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A Chant To Soothe Wild Elephants
In 2001, Jaed Coffin, a Thai-American man, left New England's Middlebury College and travelled to Thailand to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in the village of Panomsarakram, and thereby fulfil a family obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity and cultural belonging, this book chronicles Jaed's time at the temple.

