Author: Robert E. Buswell Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: experience, monastic, zen
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-11-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 069103477X
ISBN-13: 9780691034775
Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author’s treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his
Authors:Hannah Ward, Jennifer Wild,
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: way, monastic
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2007-02-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802840450
ISBN-13: 9780802840455
From its beginnings in the deserts of Egypt and surrounding countries in the third century, monastic life has drawn men and women away from society to seek God in simplicity and purity of heart. Given our often frenetic lives today, that sort of peace and solitude is deeply, mysteriously appealing. As this book of daily readings shows, however, monastic life is hardly an escape from the world. Indeed, monastic spirituality addresses the cares and concerns of human life from a unique perspective shaped by centuries of deepening spiritual wisdom. Culled from the writings of m
Author: Charles S. Prebish
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Pub
Keywords: discipline, monastic, buddhist
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 8120813391
ISBN-13: 9788120813397
Two significant monastic texts, from 4th and 7th centuries CE. two introductory chapters, notes, and concordance. rep. 1974 ed.
Author: Benet Tvedten
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Keywords: lives, monastic, crew, motley
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 2007-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0814631770
ISBN-13: 9780814631775
In this latest collection of portraits and reflections on the monastic life, Brother Benet Tvedten has gathered together a motley crew indeed. Inside this book you’ll encounter the stories, both legend and history, of ancestors and contemporary monastics, the saints and the laypeople who contributed to this movement over the centuries. They struggle with obedience: Maurus jumps into the lake. They perform miracles: Scholastica prays up a storm to keep her brother by her side. They venture forth to serve as missionaries in the American wilderness of the Dakota territories,
Author: Lawrence S. Cunningham
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: vision, monastic, merton, thomas
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0802802222
ISBN-13: 9780802802224
Taking up where THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN ended, this biography explores the intellectual and spiritual development of the world’s most famous Trappist monk. Though the outlines of Thomas Merton’s life are generally known to his many readers, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar. This penetrating biography by Lawrence Cunningham explores Merton’s monastic life and subsequent growth into a modern-day "spiritual master". "If one does not understand Merton as munk," writes Cunningham, "one does not understand Merton at all." The book follows the trajecto
Authors:George Ferzoco, Carolyn Muessig,
Publisher: Leicester University Press
Keywords: education, monastic, medieval
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-12
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0718502469
ISBN-13: 9780718502461
This study investigates monastic education and formation in male and female houses in Western Europe from the eighth to the sixteenth century. The fourteen chapters, written by well-known scholars, consider monastic education and practices in the geographical areas of England, France, Germany and the Low Countries.
Author: Jean Leclercq
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: monastic, culture, study, god, learning, desire, love
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0823204073
ISBN-13: 9780823204076
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the Institute of Monastic Studies at Sant’Anselmo in Rome during the winter of 1955-56.
