Coffin, Jaed.

A chant to soothe wild elephants : a memoir / Jaed Coffin. - Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, 2008. - 205 p. ; 21 cm.

A memoir describing the life of Jaed Coffin and his experiences growing up in New England, discussing how he left Middlebury College at the age of twenty-one to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram


Maine author. Jaed Coffin lives in Brunswick.

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Coffin, Jaed.


Thai Americans--Biography.
Buddhist monks--Thailand--Biography.


Thailand--Social life and customs.

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