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Thoughts on the East (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Thoughts on the EastThis is a collection of extracts from Thomas Merton's "Asian Journal", and other short works on Eastern religions written in the last few years of his life. It provides essential definitions of the Eastern religions that so interested him in the last years of his life.
Full description- Publisher: Burns & Oates Ltd
- Published: 01 February 2000
- Format: Paperback 98 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Philosophy | Comparative Religion | Buddhism | Hinduism | Other Non-Christian Religions | Spirituality & Religious Experience
- ISBN 13: 9780860122685 ISBN 10: 0860122689
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Full description for Thoughts on the East
The Eastern religious traditions, especially the varieties of Buddhism, were the last great passion in Thomas Merton's life. His participation in a monastic conference in Asia led to his premature, accidental death. He discoursed on equal terms with the Dalai Lama, and extracts from their interviews appear in this book. The introduction brings together extracts from Merton's "Asian Journal" (Hinduism and varieties of Buddhism), and other short works on Eastern religions written in the last few years of his life. They all combine to demonstrate the breadth of vision that is such an integral part of Merton's lasting appeal, his quest for a deeper unity underlying apparent fragmentation. They might be regarded as steps toward the great book on monasticism that Merton might have written but never did. As they stand, they provide Merton's essential definitions of the religions that so interested him in the last years of his life, and of which he became a skilful Western interpreter.
