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Monks and magicBook 1975 • Terwiel, B. J.
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This monograph describes religious practices in rural Thailand with an emphasis on the discrepancy between “pure” Buddhism and the practice of magic. Terwiel describes children and religion; adolescents, amulets, and tattooing; the monkhood experienc...