The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson

The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand

Benedict Anderson

112 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world’s most bizar...

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