Mystics and Zen Masters e-bog
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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living partic...
E-bog
104,11 DKK
Forlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Udgivet
29 november 1999
Længde
384 sider
Genrer
HREZ
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781429944007
Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "e;All these studies,"e; wrote Merton, "e;are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."e;