(E8) THE DALAI LAMA AT THOMAS MERTON’S GRAVE
Artist – Tom Dusterberg
Oil on Canvas
Artist – Tom Dusterberg
Oil on Canvas
(E8) THE DALAI LAMA AT THOMAS MERTON’S GRAVE
Artist – Tom Dusterberg
Oil on Canvas
Thomas Merton, a Trappist Monk from Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky, started to correspond with the Dalai Lama and, in time, he convinced his Abbot to allow him to go to Tibet thus setting a unique event of a cloistered Monk to visit a Buddhist Monastery. Thomas Merton died during that trip on December 10, 1968.
Some of the Tibetan monks have referred to Thomas Merton as a Buddha as he demonstrated there is very little in Buddhism that conflicts with Christianity. The Dalai Lama visits the Monastery and prays at Merton’s grave while in USA.
Artist – Tom Dusterberg
Oil on Canvas
Thomas Merton, a Trappist Monk from Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky, started to correspond with the Dalai Lama and, in time, he convinced his Abbot to allow him to go to Tibet thus setting a unique event of a cloistered Monk to visit a Buddhist Monastery. Thomas Merton died during that trip on December 10, 1968.
Some of the Tibetan monks have referred to Thomas Merton as a Buddha as he demonstrated there is very little in Buddhism that conflicts with Christianity. The Dalai Lama visits the Monastery and prays at Merton’s grave while in USA.
