Author: Silcock, Thomas
Title: A Village Ordination
Description: Lund / London, Studentlitteratur/ Curzon, (1976). orig. wrappers. 22x15cm, xxiii,(209) pp, Series: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 25.. 21pp photoplates. Corner bump, some rubbing, VG. ¶ Consists of a 20-page Introduction + 183pp Bi-lingual Thai - English text on facing pages + 21pp photoplates. " 'A Village Ordination' is a Thai poem by a distinguished monk Phra Maha Thongyoy Worakawinto, of the monastery of Mahatat, outside the town of Ratburi in Thailand. It won the 1971 literary prize of the Kennedy Foundation of Thailand. The poem described the ordination of a Buddhist monk in a rural monastery & deals with Thai rural culture, Buddhist religion & the customs of a Thai monastery" [rear cover blurb].

Keywords: Thailand, Thai Literature, Buddhism, Southeast Asia, Poetry, Anthropology, Buddhist Monks, ,