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The Sign Beyond All Signs

The Sign Beyond All Signs

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Section I ORIGINS OF A TRADITION

1. The Archetype of the Monk: A Sign Before all Signs

—Bede Griffiths O.S.B.

2. Monasticism in India: A Survey of its Ancient Traditions

—Francis Acharya

3- Contemplation and Action: The Bhagavad Git a in the Light of Ramanuja’s Commentary

—T.K.fohn SJ.

4. A Model of Monastic Life in the Acts of the Apostles

—Lucien Legrand M.E.P.

Section n

MONASTIC VALUES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

5. The Place of Silence in Monastic Life

—Teresita D ‘Silva O. S.B.

6. Poverty in Monastic Life

—Subhash Anand

7. Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form: Centering Prayer

—Basil Pennington O.C.S.O.

8. The Orthodox Tradition of the Spiritual Father and Mount Athos

—Basil Pennington O.C.S.O.

9- The Abbot in the Rule of St. Benedict in the Light of the Nature and Role of the Guru in the Upanishadic Tradition

—Sara Grant R.S.C.J.

10. Work in Christian Monasticism

—Mayeul de Dreuille O.S.B.

11. To Persevere in the Monastery Until Death: Stability in the Rule of St. Benedict and Elsewhere

—Adalbert de Vogue O.S.B.

12. Brahmacharya and Celibacy

—Subhash Anand 235 Section m EXPERIMENTS AND THE FUTURE

13- Sri Ramakrishna’s New Interpretation of Traditional Monasticism

—Placid Cherukanayil O.S.B.

14. Gandhian Ashrams in the Light of Earlier Monastic Traditions and the Rationale of Themes like Silence, Celibacy and Vegetarianism

—E. P. Menon

15- Sannyasa in the Thought of Abhishiktananda

—Emmanuel Vattakuzhy

16. Initiation into Monastic Conversion as a Return to Paradise: A Glance at the Christian Tradition

—Fr. Cletus Mathew Vadakkekara O.S.B

Epilogue

Index

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Description

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE SERIES
This series attempts to facilitate an effective and fruitful dialogue between religions. Most of the material at the source level is intended for anyone who is interested in purposeful dialogue across religions. The essays and articles have been prepared by various scholars in their respective fields.
TITLES IN THE SERIES

Prayer and Conlemplalion

Ed: Cletus M. Vadakkekara

This book comprises 18 scholarly papers, each one unfolding a specific realm of spirituality, and affords’ the richness of the Christian Patristic as well as various Hindu traditions.

ISBN 81-7495-026-5
Book 1
Divine Grace and Human Response Ed: Cietus M. Vadakkekara

The studies in this volume cover a wide range of teachings on Divine Grace from the Bible and the Fathers, and the main schools of Hindu thought, revealing an extraordinary degree of parallel doctrine in Christian and Hindu traditions. ISBN 81-7495-027-3
Book 2
Book 3 The Sign Beyond All Signs

Christian Monastlcism in Dialogue with India

Ed: Canon Francis V. Tiso

This book on monastic themes continues the kind of creative conversation as the previous volumes do, and is offered as a paradigm of the struggle to arrive at deeper inter-religious understanding. ISBN 81-7495-019-2
Purusa: Treading the Razor’s Edge Toward Selfhood

The Self and Self-Experience in Islamic and Hindu Mysticism Thomas Mooren

The author sojourns the realms of Indian Upanishads and Islamic Sufism in pursuit of the Self and Self-Experience—”the essential feature of the basic mystical attitude in Hinduism and Islam”—on the border between God and humankind. This definitely provides a platform for Inter-religious dialogue.

ISBN 81-7495-019-2

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