The Other Side of the Mountain

The End of the Journey

• Author(s): Thomas Merton,
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Pages: 368
• ISBN_10: 0062016784
  ISBN_13: 9780062016782
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Spirituality , Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts , Religion / Christianity / Catholic , Religion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , Religion / Christian Living / Inspirational , Religion / Christian Living / Personal Growth , Religion / Christian Living / Personal Memoirs , Religion / Christian Theology / General , Religion / Inspirational ,

Description:... With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East – journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. In Southeast Asia, he meets the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist and Catholic monks and discovers a rare and rewarding kinship with each. The final year is full of excitement and great potential for Merton, making his accidental death in Bangkok, at the age of fifth-three, all the more tragic.