Excuse the alliteration, but it seemed appropriate as this man was a wordsmith, even in English. I came across his books in Bangkok: one in my favorite used bookstore, and the other in the night-table drawer in a hotel I stayed at. It was there in the same way you find the Gideon Bible in roadside motels in Canada.

His writings are concise primers on Buddhism, and helped me to clear away the debris that had accumulated around the spiritual tradition in my mind over the years. He had a way of making “dhamma” accessible to lay-folk like myself. Dhamma is the “right path”, and I’ve never forgotten his admonitions to prepare my psyche for the nuclear age! This is part one of a documentary on the man that I found.

Go to the EXTRA VIDEOS TAB at the top of this page to watch parts 2 and 3.