The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who...

"The Seven Storey Mountain" ist eine autobiografische Darstellung des Lebens von Thomas Merton, einem bekannten Trappistenmönch und Schriftsteller. In dem Buch beschreibt Merton seine Reise von einer unruhigen Jugend voller Selbstzweifel...

Thomas Merton. Der Mönch der sieben Stufen

Thomas Merton's biography of a little known saint, St. Lutgarde of Aywieres, the Cistercian mystic, now reissued. von Merton, Thomas

Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is...