มัทรี
(Matsii)

This 1985 short story is about a young woman who leaves her children at a bus stop and refuses to take them back.  The excuses she gives for her behavior made this a controversial story.  In this story, the author alludes to the the classic Buddhist tale, Wetsandorn Chadok [from Pali: Vessantara Jataka], one version of which was composed in the reign of King Mongkut, Rama IV.  In the original story, the Lord Buddha, in his last re-birth -- as a ruling prince -- gives up his children to a vile Brahmin (a person of the highest caste in India) as an act of perfect, i.e., detached generosity.

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Story: Sri Daoruang
Translation: Susan Fulop Kepner
Design: Jenjit Gasigitamrong
1998

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