A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants

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Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England`s privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother`s native village of Panomsarakram- thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain season- receiving alms in the streets in saffron robes bathing in the canal

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