The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
About This Book
Published posthumously, this journal records Merton's journey to Asia in 1968 — the last months of his life — during which he met with the Dalai Lama, Chatral Rinpoche, and other great Buddhist masters, and visited sacred sites from India to Sri Lanka to Thailand. Written with characteristic lucidity and depth, it documents his growing conviction that Christian mysticism and Buddhist enlightenment were pointing to the same ultimate reality.
What You'll Learn
Genuine dialogue between religions requires that both parties speak from the depth of their own tradition rather than from the surface of it — depth speaks to depth. Merton's encounters with Tibetan masters convinced him that the experience of non-dual awareness is possible within the Christian framework and had been suppressed rather than cultivated. The great traditions converge not in their doctrines but in the transformative experiences to which their practices lead.
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