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"Ashram Diary" accompanies the reader to Shantivanam, an ashram (hermitage) in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Shantivanam began in 1950 when two French priests put on the orange robes of Hindu renunciants and initiated their life of meditation by the sacred river Kaveri. In 1968, an English monk, Bede Griffiths, became the ashram's guru and taught there until his passing in 1993. During the last nine years of Griffiths' life, Thomas Matus listened to his teachings and shared in the life of the ashram.In this book, Matus recounts his experience of India, its people, and its spiritual culture during frequent retreats at Shantivanam. He narrates his travels to sacred Hindu and Buddhist shrines and his conversations with fellow seekers on the path. Honestly examining his own faith and vocation as a monk, Matus invites the reader to share his quest: to rethink Christianity in Indian terms and India in Christian terms, in order to discover the one Reality beyond all names and forms, in which faith and spiritual searching reach their ultimate and blessed end.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Ashram Diary
• Subtitle: In India with Bede Griffiths
• Author: Thomas Matus
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781846941610
• ISBN: 184694161X
• ID: 05100674
• Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
• Weight: 244 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 139 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2009

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