Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

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: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 02/28/1975
Pages: 446
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.32w x 1.25d
ISBN13: 9780811205702
ISBN10: 0811205703
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Inspirational
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious