| Author Quoted | |
| Title Quoted | Dhammapada |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1956/05/07 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Oxfort University Press. 1950 |
| Quotation | For al long time I have been meaning to write about several things. For one, I at last sent off the Dhammappada (or however you spell it) and the Tamil Kural. I was especially intersted in the former, and I guess it must be a pretty important Buddhist text. A lot of material is thoroughly familiar - detachment, purity of heart an so forth. I was glad to have the chance to look through it, and I kept a few notes. |
| Quotation Source | Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.; Edited by David D. Cooper. / New York: W.W. Norton. 1997, p. 114 |
| Letter to | James Laughlin |
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