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Title: The Gethsemani Encounter: A Dialogue on the Spiritual Life by Buddhist and Christian Monastics by Donald W. Mitchell, James Wiseman ISBN: 0-8264-1165-7 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: New, in-depth exchange
Comment: Since 1977 the small group of North American Christian monastics, monks and nuns, have established exchanges with non-Christian monastics, principally Buddhists but also with Hindus and Moslems. Attempting to identify both similarities and differences in practice rather than examine dogmas, this Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (MID) group sponsored speakers, programs and publications, and eventually engaged in sending small groups of members to visit the exiled Tibetan monastics, followers of the Dalai Lama, in India, and brought representatives from India to visit American and Canadian monasteries.
The Gethsamani Encounter was designed to extend the mutual understanding these former programs had developed to a still deeper level. It lasted almost a week. Participants were restricted to twenty-five Christians and twenty-five Buddhists from all parts of the world. The site chosen was Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, a Trappist monastery whose most well-known member, Thomas (Brother Louis) Merton had died just twenty-five years earlier. He was one of a small group of pioneer Christians interested in Buddhism and died just shortly after having met the Dalai Lama. This confluence of place, history and dates made Gethsemani ideal for this meeting.
This book presents all of the Buddhist and Christian papers presented in multiple sessions daily. Often a group of papers would cluster around a particular theme (meditation; training) and would not only expose the common themes but especially the distinctive notes of each special group--different Buddhist lineages; various Christian groups. Presenters came from the U.S. and Canada, Europe, India, Burma, Cambodia, Japan and other areas giving presentations which inspired, informed and clarified. They also exposed questions and themes still needing more penetration. Consequently the contents of this publication are not only unique but they also supply a high level watershed from which further clarity and mutuality can emerge. The editors, themselves participants in the encounter, James Wiseman, OSB and Donald Mitchell are specialists who make the contents of the papers accessible to the uninitiated and informative to the specialist. This book is without parallel and is meaningful for both the person seriously interested in Buddhism, Christianity, monasticism and East-West exchanges and those who are unfamiliar with the material but ready to become richly informed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly different,humble and Divine
Comment: The Gethsemani Encounter was perhaps one of the great overlooked religious moments in the past decade. In the hills of Kentucky, in the oldest Trappist monastery in the United States,monastics from all over the world gathered to dialogue,to learn,to agree and disagree.The meeting place was suggested By The Dalai Lama,who in a moving afterword says"And so for the rest of my life,the impact of meeting him will remain until my last breath."The him is Thomas Merton, who met with the Dalai Lama on his final journey through the east in 1968.The talks in this book are broken up into sections{Journey and Dialogue,Prayer and Medidtation,Method and Expierence, Growth and Development,etc.} with speakers from both Buddhist and Christian monastic tradition sharing their expierence and strength. Some of the participants are truly moving: Ven. Maha Ghosananda of Cambodia speaking briefly on THE HUMAN FAMILY,the dalia lama on THE BODHISATTVA AND SOCIETY,,PRAYER AS PATH by Pierre-francios de bethune`Mary Margaret Funk,OSB on Lectio DIVINA,and many more. An over used term, treasure trove is quite appropriate. This is a collection to return to, to glean ,to nurture the soul.TO Open This volume isto enter a holy place . Truly magnificent.
Rating: 5
Summary: A COMTEMPLATIVE LOOK AT THE CONNECTIONS OF E. & W. RELIGION
Comment: SET IN MERTON'S ABBEY IN TRAPPIST, KY, THIS BOOK FINDS THE BASIS AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TWO PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE USUALLY THOUGHT TO BE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED. A NEW LOOK FOR MATURE RELIGIOUS THINKING.
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Title: Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict by Norman Fischer, Joseph Goldstein, Judith Simmer-Brown, Yifa, Patrick Henry ISBN: 1573229407 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Transforming Suffering: Reflections on Finding Peace in Troubled Times by Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho, James Wiseman ISBN: 0385507828 Publisher: SCB Distributors Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon, William Henry Shannon ISBN: 0060539283 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms by Norman Fischer ISBN: 0142196134 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus by Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho, Dalai Lama, Robert Kiely ISBN: 0861711386 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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