Book Review: Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life

Adiele Faith (2004), Meeting Faith: the Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun, Norton, New York (reprinted as a paperback in 2005 with the new subtitle An Inward Odyssey, with an author's statement).

Brown Sid (2001), The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.

Cook Joanna (2009), ‘Hagiographic narrative and monastic practice: Buddhist morality and mastery amongst Thai Buddhist nuns’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (NS), Vol 15, pp 349–364.

Cook Joanna (2010), ‘Ascetic practice and participant observation, or, the gift of doubt in field experience’, in Davies J. Spencer D. , eds, Emotions in the Field: The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, pp 239–265.

Latdawan Tamafu (2549 BE [2006]), ‘Maechi: lok khong phuying thi thuk luem’ [mae chis: The forgotten world of women], Chiang Mai University Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 18, No 1, pp 104–131.

Lindberg Falk Monica (2007), Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand, NIAS Press, Copenhagen.

Sponberg Alan (1992), ‘Attitudes toward women and the feminine in early Buddhism’, in Cabezon J.I. , ed, Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, pp 3–26.