Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings.(Review)

From: Commonweal | Date: September 28, 2001| Author: | Copyright information 
Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings 
Edited by Sister Annabel Laity 
Orbis, $15, 163 pp.

Nhat Hanh (Thich is a title for Vietnamese Buddhist monks) is, after the Dalai Lama, the best-known Buddhist monk in the West. In exile from his native Vietnam for more than thirty years, he now lives in France. He left Vietnam because of his involvement in antiwar activities in the 1960s but is still unwelcome by the current Vietnamese regime. I first became aware of him in 1966 through his friendship with Thomas Merton. In the last few years of his life, Merton used Nhat Hanh's poetry as ...

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