Three Buddhist Tales

King Bimbisara's Chronicler
A novel about a young man sent by King Bimbisara to memorize the teachings of the Buddha, told thirty years later during the turbulent reign of King Ajatasattu.

After the Parinibbana
A short story about an old monk who is the last living person to have heard the Buddha teach and was present at the Buddha's parinibbana.

Myth of Maitreya
A novella about the Bodhisattva Maitreya visiting Asanga during his twelve years alone in the forest and the subsequent creation of a new Buddhist philosophy with the help of Asanga's brother, Vasubandhu.

If Only I Had Listened with Different Ears: Three Buddhist Tales, Jason Siff, Sumeru Press, 185 pages, $24.95

Jason Siff was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the late 1980s, when he first began teaching Vipassana Meditation. He subsequently left the Buddhist Order and eventually developed his own approach to meditation in 1988, called, �Recollective Awareness Meditation.� Upon leaving the Buddhist Order, he returned to the US in 1990 to study counseling psychology and train as a psychotherapist. In 1996, he was at a crossroad in his career and decided against becoming a licensed psychotherapist in favor of teaching Recollective Awareness Meditation.

CONTENTS: If Only I Had Listened with Different Ears
Introduction	5
King Bimbisara's Chronicler	11
After the Parinibbana	103
Myth of Maitreya	121