Phra Farang
An English Monk in Thailand
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2005
Summary
An account - both compelling and compassionate - of a Westerner’s metamorphosis into a practicing Buddhist monk.
At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped it would be.
In this truly extraordinary memoir, Phra Peter Pannapadipo describes his ten-year metamorphosis into a practicing Buddhist monk, while…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099484479 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099484471 |
| Author: | Phra Peter Pannapadipo |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2005 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 110mm x 178mm |
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Phra Peter Pannapadipo
Peter Robinson became a Buddhist monk, taking the name Phra Peter Pannapadiop, at the age of forty-five but now administers SET - the Students’ Education Trust he set up for novices who wished to continue their education but cannot afford to do so. As monks cannot earn money or fundraise themselves, he elected to disrobe temporarily.
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