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A01=Laura Leonelli
Author_Laura Leonelli
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AJ
Category=NL-HR
COP=Italy
Format=BB
HMM=210
IMPN=Contrasto
ISBN13=9788869654084
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20130107
POP=London
Price=€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Contrasto
Subject=Photography & Photographs
Subject=Religion & Beliefs
WG=620
WMM=150

Lem: Initiation of a Little Buddha

English

By (author): Laura Leonelli

In Laos, one of the most beautiful and least known countries of the East, in a small village in the mountains, a twelve-year-old boy is about to enter the monastery. In the fragile space between a dawn and a sunset, Lem will abandon his family and become a novice in the holy city of Theravada Buddhism, Luang Prabang. In just a few hours Lem will leave behind his past, his affections, his child''s games and his mother''s caresses. In order to continue his studies, to become an adult, Lem will have to bear detachment, loneliness, hunger, fear, the vision of death. The only way for him to gain a new maturity is by subjecting himself to the rigours of the rite of initiation; rigours we are no longer familiar with, belonging as we do to a society that has endlessly extended the boundaries of adolescence. Lem, wrapped in the orange robe, is about to join a world composed entirely of men, symbol of all authority. But accompanying him on this journey, in the week preceding the Laotian New Year and while people wait for the rain that will swell the waters of the Mekong and make the gold of the pagodas shine, is a female gaze, unprecedented and, in a way, forbidden. The gaze of his mother and the author. Together, they will follow Lem to his new home. They will enter the cells of the monks with him, sleep in the darkness of the temples and walk in silence in the heart of the forest, the place where the masters retreat in meditation. Together, a mother and a son, a woman and the man who is to be, will experience the pain hidden in all life. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 620g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jan 2013
  • Publisher: Contrasto
  • Publication City/Country: London, Italy
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9788869654084
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