AWAKENINGS HOW FORMERLY OBSCURE TIBETAN BUDDHISM BECAME ONE OF THE WEST'S FASTEST-GROWING RELIGIONS The Boston Globe | February 29, 2004| | Copyright 2004 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Jeffrey Paine opens his riveting narrative about Tibetan Buddhism's emergence in the West with an account of Thomas Merton's brief but prophetic encounter with "the dharma." In 1968, the last year of his life, America's most celebrated Catholic writer stopped in India on his way to an interfaith conference in Bangkok. The Trappist monk was a serious student of Asian religions, a translator of the Tao Te Ching, and had written extensively about Zen. Yet Merton had dismissed Tibetan Buddhism as a sect riddled with superstition. After a series of unscheduled meetings with several Tibetans, ...

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