Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma /
It is 1992, and the Burmese government's current war on its indigenous people runs into its fourth year. In neighboring Thailand, a small band of Buddhist monks harbors refugees from Burma inside their modest temple in the slums of Bangkok. The monks and refugees are all natives of the Burmese...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia Press,
©2002.
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| ISBN: | 082032633X 9780820326337 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Blessings in the rain
- Flying Buddha
- Florence Nightingale
- Mothers and sons
- Beyond risk
- A soldier in the jungle
- A basket of prayers
- Dancing with the hurricane
- Death railway
- A letter from prison
- Selling death
- Misunderstandings
- Where our sympathies lie
- Safe
- The sound of the prison gate
- A true friend
- The stories we tell
- Where the poor search for justice
- Snowy river
- Crossing borders
- Presidents and kings
- When Monland is free
- One step forward
- Singing to the dead
- The face of God
- A strange reception
- A case of stomachache
- The lion and the dragon.