Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Merton ThomasPaperback
Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Merton ThomasPaperback "The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. We…
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Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Merton ThomasPaperback
"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. 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.
There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian vocation. 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. 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