BOOK BRIEFS

Ajahn Jayasaro’s STILLNESS FLOWING: THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF AJAHN CHAH (Abhayagiri 2017) is a remarkable testament to the legacy of the Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah (1918–1992). Over eight hundred pages in length, the book begins with Ajahn Chah’s death in Ubon Ratchathani in Northeast Thailand, which prompted over a million people (yes, a million) to travel to his monastery and bow before his body in the year between his death and cremation. This fact alone gives us a sense of Ajahn Chah’s impact on Buddhism in Thailand, and thanks to his numerous Western disciples, his Forest Tradition has now spread well beyond Thailand’s borders. One striking feature of Ajahn Chah’s approach