Merton And Hinduism

Author : David M. Odorisio
Publisher : Fons Vitae
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941610854

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Merton and Hinduism by David M. Odorisio Pdf

Merton and Hinduism is the first book to thoroughly and definitively trace the lasting influence of Yoga and Hindu traditions on the life and writings of renowned author Thomas Merton, Catholic Priest and Trappist Monk, and pioneer of inter-religious dialogue. Informative and original essays by leading scholars highlight specific points of contact between Merton and various aspects of the Hindu and Yoga traditions, such as Merton and Gandhi, Merton and the Bhagavad Gita, and Merton's dialogue and friendship with key Indian intellectuals such as A.K. Coomaraswamy, among many others. Approximately half of the book collects Merton's own writings on Hinduism and Yoga, and many essays are published here for the first time. These essays portray Merton as teacher and novice master, cultural commentator, and contemplative practitioner interested in the mutually enriching dialogue among Catholic Christianity, Hinduism, and Yoga traditions.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441142467

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Thoughts On The East by Thomas Merton Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780860122685

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Thoughts On The East by Thomas Merton Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811219952

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On Eastern Meditation by Thomas Merton Pdf

A great introduction to the religions of the East by a monk from the West. Merton’s biographer, George Woodcock, once wrote that “almost from the beginning of his monastic career, Thomas Merton tentatively began to discover the great Asian religions of Buddhism and Taoism.” Merton, a longtime social justice advocate, first approached Eastern theology as an admirer of Gandhi’s beliefs on non-violence. Through Gandhi, Merton came to know the great Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita and in time came to have dialogues with the Dalai Lama and Taoist leader D. T. Suzuki. Merton then became deeply interested in Chuang Tzu and Zen thought. On Eastern Meditation, edited by Bonnie Thurston (author of Merton and Buddhism), gathers the best of his Eastern theological writings into a gorgeously designed gift book edition.

Author : Rob Baker,Gray Henry
Publisher : Fons Vitae Thomas Merton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1887752072

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Merton & Sufism by Rob Baker,Gray Henry Pdf

In addition to scholarly articles, this volume includes Merton's own Sufi poems, insightful book reviews, transcriptions from his related lectures, and a selection of works from which he drew particular inspiration, including the work of al-Tirmidhi (d.932), which uses fascinating metaphors to elucidate the difference between the Breast, Heart, Inner Heart, and the Intellect.

Author : Jaechan Anselmo Park
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814684993

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Thomas Merton's Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond by Jaechan Anselmo Park Pdf

Thomas Merton recognized the value and possibility of contemplative dialogue between monastics and contemplatives of other religious traditions and hoped that, through such dialogue, monastics would strive for ‘inter-monastic communion’ and a bonding of the broader ‘spiritual family.’ He held out hope that this bond would demonstrate the fundamental unity of humanity to a world that was becoming ever more materialistic and divided. Among other themes and topics, this book explores Thomas Merton’s role as a pioneer of Buddhist-Christian dialogue and monastic interreligious dialogue. It delves into the process of Merton’s self-transformation through contemplative experiences, explores his encounter with Zen and Tibetan Buddhists and his pioneering engagements in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, and presents and responds to the criticisms of those who raise questions about Merton’s understanding of Buddhism. Fr. Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB, articulates and analyzes the influences of Buddhist theory and practice on Thomas Merton’s contemplative spirituality and shows how Merton’s legacy has influenced and continues to inspire interreligious and inter-monastic dialogue, particularly in an Asian monastic context.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1975-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811223096

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The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton Pdf

"This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review. "The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back again to Bangkok for his scheduled talk at a conference of Asian monastic orders. There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian vocation. His last journal entry was made on December 8, 1968, two days before his untimely, accidental death. Amply illustrated with photographs he himself took along the way and fully indexed, the book also contains a glossary of Asian religious terms, a preface by the Indian scholar Amiya Chakravarty, a foreword and postscript by Brother Patrick Hart of the Abbey of Gethsemani, as well as several appendices, among them the text of Merton's final address.

Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611803372

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On Thomas Merton by Mary Gordon Pdf

From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings. “If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.” So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton “writer to writer,” Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as “a man of dialogue,” and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external—an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer. Rich with excerpts from Merton’s own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who “lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.”

Author : Peter Savastano
Publisher : Fons Vitae Thomas Merton
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1891785990

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Merton & Indigenous Wisdom by Peter Savastano Pdf

The essays in this volume of the Fons Vitae Series, Merton & Indigenous Wisdom, are spiritual exercises to explore Merton's globally inclusive religious imagination. These exercises can revitalize our ways of living as we drink from the springs of ancient views and practices. They help us to not only recognize the damage of European colonization, but to taste indigenous American wisdom as a still-living sacrament for our collective salvation.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 028107366X

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The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton Pdf

This title tells the story of Thomas Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly.

Author : Dear, John
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608335398

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Thomas Merton Peacemaker by Dear, John Pdf

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781429966764

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The Hidden Ground of Love by Thomas Merton Pdf

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is the most admired of all American Catholic writers. His journals have recently been published to wide acclaim. The collection of Merton's letters in The Hidden Ground of Love were selected and edited by William H. Shannon.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798400800313

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Thomas Merton in California by Thomas Merton Pdf

"In May and October of 1968, Thomas Merton offered two extended conferences at Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey, a Cistercian women's community in Northern California. It is comprised of previously unpublished letters and over twenty-six hours of conference talks"--

Author : Edward K. Kaplan
Publisher : Fons Vitae Thomas Merton
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000088074343

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Merton and Judaism by Edward K. Kaplan Pdf

Contributors to this volume present Thomas Merton as making a significant opening to reverent appreciation of past and present Judaism, as he aspires to be, or claims to be "a true Jew under my Catholic skin."

Author : Mary Swain,Bonnie Thurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1891785605

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Hidden in the Same Mystery by Mary Swain,Bonnie Thurston Pdf

Clear and moving, this compilation reveals previously unpublished discussions on prayer and religious vows between Thomas Merton and the Sisters of Loretto in the early 1960s. Offering insight into Merton's friendship with one of the most influential American religious women of the 20th century, Sr. Mary Luke Tobin--who was one of the 15 official women observers at Vatican II--this history reflects not only Merton's deep understanding of religious life, but also his affection for this particular community of sisters.