num_pages: 300
description: There is still a place in the jungles of Thailand where you can leave it all behind... A cult classic and bestseller in the 1990s What the Buddha Never Taught is a humorous behind the robes account of life inside one of the strictest jungle monasteries in Southeast Asia. In Pahnanachat the monks keep the 227 rules laid down by the Buddha including refraining from all killing. But how does a foreign monk cope with cobra in the outhouse or the temptation of a Mars Bar in his begging bowl? Find out in this newly reincarnated 20th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by Wade Davis.
language: English
title: What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery
publisher: Changemakers Books