Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

From Ayodhya to Pulo Agama-Niog: Rama's Journey to the Philippines

Author: Juan R. Francisco
Price: PhP 300 • Availability: In stock
Year of Publication: 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS • PREFACE AND FOREWORD

This book "traces the journey of the Ramayana from India to the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia. [It] brings out how the story... changed as the epic journeyed beyond India under the influence of the local cultural ethos in different countries."