“Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka is a finely crafted novel that succeeds both as a work of literature and as a profound reflection on the nature of Buddhist spiritual experience. In following the young Western monk Sumana into the Sri Lankan jungle to meet his teacher Aggachitta, we are drawn into a world of conflicting perceptions, in which sincerity and self-doubt, the mundane and the transcendent, are woven together into a poignant and moving tapestry of intersecting human lives.”

Stephen Batchelor,
author of “Buddhism without Beliefs”

Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka, A Novel, Jason Siff, Vajra Publications, Paperback, 2008, 362 Pages, $17.95

Jason Siff is a Buddhist meditation teacher. He lives in a small town in the mountains of Southern California. He was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the 1980’s and draws upon that experience in this novel. His first novel, “King Bimbisara’s Chronicler,” was published in 2001.