{"product_id":"the-asian-journal-of-thomas-merton-9780811204644","title":"The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is quintessential Merton.\" The Catholic Review. \"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 Mertons final address. Black-and-white photographs throughout\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648349364277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0811204642","price":77.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780811204644.jpg?v=1781716767","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-asian-journal-of-thomas-merton-9780811204644","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}