Records the first monastic year of a 38-year-old Californian who was ordained in a Thai Buddhist monastery. This remarkable book records the first monastic year of a 38 year-old Californian who was ordained in a Thai Buddhist monastery. He neither sought nor received special privileges. In every detail, he lived the celibate and abstemious life of the orthodox Theravadin bhikkhu, and embarked on a spiritual quest as relevant in today's troubled world...