Buddhist Children and Misunderstood Crows.

This article reviews the book Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions. It first gives an overview of the contents, altogether nineteen articles discussing children and childhood in Buddhist texts and traditions. Subsequently, the concepts of kākuṭṭepaka pabbajjā and upāsaka pravrajyā , presented in one of the articles, are discussed in more detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]