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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Casey, Dave, Fr., M.M.".
Fr. Dave Casey mentions in his letter, written from the guest house at Gethsemani, that he has spent the past seven years in Japan after receiving a doctorate from Harvard University in Oriental Religions. He was a colleague of other Catholic experts on Buddhism like Fr. Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J., and Fr. Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle.
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See also "Dumoulin, Heinrich" file.
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1968/04/23 |
HLS to Merton |
I should begin by introducing myself. I am a Maryknoll Father, who has lived in Japan for the past |
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English translations of German works by Dumoulin and Lasalle / asks Merton about the future of Christianity in Asia - can it be de-Hellenized, is Paul Tillich correct in seeing dialogue with non-Christian religions as the future of Christian theology, and is there an "imperative confrontation" between east-west monastic traditions?
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