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In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he\& 8217;s a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, , was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahmin, was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other \& 8221;child people,\& 8221; dragged around by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse\& 8217;s other creations of struggling young men, has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader\& 8217;s ear down to hear answers from the river. In this translation Sherab Chodzin Kohn captures the slow, spare lyricism of \& 8217;s search, putting her version on par with Hilda Rosner\& 8217;s standard edition. & 8211;Brian Bruya .

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