Thomas Merton and Dialogue with Buddhism - America Magazine
2012年7月13日 · In the 1950's Merton began exploring Buddhism, especially Zen Buddhism. He thought he found some resonance between Zen and the Desert Fathers. Like Zen roshis, the Desert Fathers sought a...
Thomas Merton: The Catholic Buddhist Mystic - Way of Life Literature
2008年9月11日 · Thomas Merton (1915-68), was a Roman Catholic Trappist monk whose writings are influential within Catholicism, the New Age movement, the peace movement, as well as the centering prayer movement that lies at the heart of the …
Can You Trust Thomas Merton? | Catholic Answers Magazine
2008年5月1日 · Zen Buddhism, as Fr. Merton understood well, was influenced by Daoism, from which Buddhism largely derives its doctrine of non-duality. In fact, one of Merton’s favorite thinkers was the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi, whom …
Merton’s dialogue with Buddhist traditions reached its high point in his transformative experience at Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka near the end of his life: “Everything is emptiness and everything is compassion.” 5
Merton was a notable example of a modern mystic mysticism carried the stamp of authenticity. In his life strongly divergent streams were integrated: contemplation and action; the sacred and the the East and the West. Although Merton's poetry, social concern and.
The Thomas Merton Connection: What was the Christian Monk …
On another side of the world from his old Kentucky home at the hermitage, at a Buddhist sacred place, Thomas Merton embodied the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity that he had so sought. His very life was a living experience, experiment and nexus for that dialogue.
Thomas Merton’s Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond: His …
2019年4月15日 · 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.
Thomas Merton's Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond
2019年4月15日 · 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.
Father Park completes his examination of Merton’s journey into Buddhist thought with the actual Asian journey he took at the end of his life. Park describes that Merton “went to Asia looking not for artifacts but for living witnesses in ancient sources and then discovered spiritual brothers and mentors in Asia” (118).
The Thomas Merton Vihara
Merton first encountered Buddhism in the 1950s, when he was introduced to Zen and other forms of Eastern thought. His spiritual journey expanded further during a trip to Asia in 1968, where he met with Buddhist monks and scholars, and began integrating Buddhist principles into his understanding of prayer, meditation, and human interconnectedness.