Behind the Painting and Other Stories Spirit It takes you through a

It takes you through a representative Thai Buddhist temple

and contemporary Buddhist belief and practice

while always alert to the difficulties of generalization

The 1997 financial bust in Thailand and the fraud

She also traces the origins of the century-old conflict between foresters and forest communities and argues that unless some kind of resolution is found

Behind the Painting and Other Stories Spirit It takes you through aTranslated from the Thai and introduced by David Smyth Behind the Painting is the story of Nopphon, a Thai student studying in Japan, who becomes infatuated with the lovely Mom Ratchawong Kirati, an older Thai woman visiting the country with her husband. Their intimacy grows, and by the time the older couple returns to Thailand, Nopphon can barely contain his feelings for her. The novel reflects postwar Thai society in the vanity of the aristocracy