Thomas Merton (1915-1968) - Trappist monk, one of the most significant and famous English-language spiritual writers of the 20th century. He wrote his essay ...

Texts by the American mystic, Catholic monk, and religious writer Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968) began to appear in Russian only in the early 1990s, but have al...

Published in the magazine: “Continent” 2003, No. 116

Translation by A. Mishchenko

Original edition: Daisetsu Suzuki “Christian and Buddhist Mysticism”. Kiev, “Sofia”, 1996.