Pursuing Morality : Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (Asaa Southeast Asia Publications Series)

An in-depth and fascinating study of ordinary life in Myanmar's southeast through a unique ethnographic focus on Buddhist Plong (Pwo) Karen. Based on extensive in-depth fieldwork, Justine Chambers shines a new light on Plong Buddhists' lives and the many ways they broker, traverse, enact, cultivate, defend, and pursue moral lives.