John Steinbeck and the Coconut Monk
John was a serious Buddhist and took Sam to visit his teacher, the Coconut Monk, at his floating pagoda in the Mekong Delta.  They rode through rice fields on a motorbike driven by John, his orange monk's robes flying in the wind.
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