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The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9780060834500
Publisher: Harper Collins
Language: English
Page Count: 272
Publication Date: 4/25/2006
Size: 8.03" l x 5.30" w x 0.77"
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Asma recounts his intense and revelatory Cambodian adventures while teaching at Phnom Penh's Buddhist Institute. In an electrifying and frank mix of hair-raising anecdotes and expert analysis, he explicates the vast difference between text-based Buddhist teachings and daily life in a poor and politically volatile Buddhist society. Amid tales of massage parlors, marijuana-spiced pizza, and bloodshed, he cogently explains how Theravada Buddhism, the form practiced throughout Southeast Asia, differs from the Buddhism Westerners are familiar with, and how entwined it is with animistic beliefs.

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