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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Abe, Masao, 1915-2006

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1966-1967

Volume: 4 item(s); 8 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Abe, Masao".

Biography

Masao Abe was a Zen Buddhist scholar from Kyoto, Japan.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See one published letter from Merton to Masao Abe in Witness to Freedom, pp. 331-332.

Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1966/08/12 HLSto MertonMr. Richard DeMartino sent me a copy of your paper. <u>Buddhism and the Modern World</u>,  Abe's article from <u>Pacific Philosophy Forum</u> / "Buddhism and Christianity as a Problem of Today" in <u>Japanese Religions</u>
 1967/03/27 TL[c]from MertonI deeply regret the fact that due to your ill health you had to return early to Japan, and were  Abe's notes on "Living Dying Life" / the <u>Eastern Buddhist</u> publication / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki / Richard De Martino / Winston King
 1967/05/12 TL[x]from MertonJust after I had sent you my last letter, the copies of "Japanese Religi [page cuts off] arrivedYes [Karl] Barth / Christian mystical experience / Christian ontology / atomic physicists - Bohr and Heisenberg / Islamic mysticism - Sufis / <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> / "'popular' Zen craze"
 1967/06/30 HLSto MertonI am sorry not to have written to you long before this. I have been dreadfully busy for the past  Abe's paper "Zen and Western Thought" / Merton's "A New Christian Consciousness?", "Seven Words", and <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> / Catholicism, Protestantism and ontological aspects of Christianity
        

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