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The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
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Description for The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Paperback. Editor(s): Hart, Patrick, OCSO; Laughlin, James; Stone, Naomi Burton. Num Pages: 446 pages, Black-and-white photographs throughout. BIC Classification: HRLK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 512.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
446
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811205702
SKU
V9780811205702
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About Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and was actively engaged with domestic issues of war and racism. James Laughlin (1914–1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at ... Read more
Reviews for The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
"Painstakingly edited by a team of scholarly admirers, but still tantalizingly unfinished, the journal is a collage of Asian images, sacred and profane....And the book itself is a kind of mandala, drawing the reader deep into a philosophical analysis, then abruptly forcing him out into the physical world."
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