Barthes, Roland, 150, 161, 163
Basho, 18, 19, 27
Basil, Fr., 130
Battuta, Ibn, 82
Bellarmine College, xv, 8n., 68; Merton Center/Merton collection, xv, 27, 52
Bending the Bow (Duncan), 60
Benedict, Bro., 61, 147
Benedict, Ruth, 281
Benedicta, Mother, of IHM, 200
Benedictine order, xiv, 45, 86n., 328
Benjamin, Bishop Eric, 289
Berrigan, Dan, 110, 150
Berrigan, Phil, 110, 124, 194
Berry, Wendell, 22, 60
Bhagavad Gita, 103
Birkel, Paul, 27
Black Power movement, 6, 51
Black Revolution (Merton), 52
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 134, 136
Blake, William, 63–64, 71, 72, 72n., 80, 120, 305
Boggs, James, 61
Bolivia, 24
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 37, 39, 40
Boone, Andy, 46, 47, 81, 131, 162, 165
Born in Tibet (Rinpoche), 164, 164n.
Bowles, Paul, 198, 198n.
Boyd, Malcolm, 49, 66
Boylan, Robert J., 224, 224n., 297, 309
Bramachari, M. B., 270, 270n.
Brattacharyya, H., 174, 175
Breathitt, Gov., 14
Breitenbeck, Bishop, 123, 128, 134
Brigham, Besmilr, 137, 167
Buddhism/Zen Buddhism, xiv, 18, 44, 48, 49, 57, 60, 68, 74, 83, 103, 113, 119, 132, 135, 149, 175, 176.209n., 211–14, 214n., 217–18, 252, 253–54, 259–61, 278–79, 281, 289; Ceylon, 312, 313, 313n., 321–24; Mahayana, 263, 292; social virrures, 287, 287n.; Tantras and Tantrism, 237n., 238–39, 241, 244, 259, 263; Theravada, 242, 242n., 251; Tibetan, xiv–xv, xvii, 145, 146n., 217, 217n., 220, 222, 222n., 227, 229–30, 230n., 232–33, 234, 235, 235n., 236, 239, 245, 251, 264, 264n.; “touching the earth” icon, 259–60. See also Mandala
Buddhist Thought in India (Conze), 276, 290
Burma, 133
Burns, Abbot Flavian, xiv, 24, 28, 31, 32, 35, 38, 40–41, 42, 49, 55, 58, 69, 70, 75, 77, 87, 122, 128, 129, 132, 134, 139, 144, 148, 152–53, 157, 162, 165, 166, 186, 190, 193, 268, 298
Burton [Stone], Naomi 10, 11, 12, 23n., 50, 52, 99–100, 132, 133, 143, 298
Butorovich, Suzanne, 190, 190n., 191, 198, 199
California, xvi, 82, 87, 92, 95–113, 117–23, 138, 198–201; Bear Harbor, 97, 99, 100, 110, 117, 120, 121, 125, 139, 164, 200; Eureka, 95. 96–97, 112, 118; Needle Rock, 97, 98, 110, 117, 119–20, 125, 129, 130, 143, 153, 201; proposed hermitage or laura, 132, 139, 142, 147, 152–53; proposed Lenten visit, 122–23; redwoods, 96–97, 101, 118; San Francisco, 101, 102, 107, 118, 199–200, 201; Santa Barbara, 119. See also Our Lady of the Redwoods
Callistus, Fr., 25, 31, 33, 37
Camillus, Bro., 62
Campbell, Will, 151
Cardenal, Ernesto, 82, 144
Cargo cults, 6, 10, 55, 56, 59, 61
Carlyle, Tom, 176, 186
Carmelites, 20n., 21, 69, 123
Carole, postulant, 110, 119
Carroll, Fr. Xavier, 181, 186
Carroll, Joe, 16
Carruth, Hayden, 56
Carthusians, 22, 150
Cassian, Bro., 147
Caste War in Yucatan, The (Reed), 6
Cecilia, Sr., 110
Chakravany, Amiya, xv, xvii, 133, 133n., 141, 145, 220
Chandra, Lokesh, 227, 233
Change of Skin (Fuentes), 60
Char, René, 79, 130, 134
Charity, Sr., 194
Charron, Marie, 27, 50, 134
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 91
Chi, Richard, 48, 49, 76, 86, 289
Chile, 12, 31, 33, 37, 39, 69, 83
Chitrabhanu, Munishri, 221, 221n.
Christianity, 16, 44, 62, 78, 138–39, 152, 278, 281, 310
Christofora, Sr., 110
Chrysostom, Bro., 133
Cistercian Studies, xvi
Cistercian (Trappistine) order, xiv, 13, 98, 104, 107, 121. See ab’o Trappists
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 82
Clare, Mother Francis, 21, 63, 69, 73, 123
Clement, Bro., 14, 17, 35, 46
Cleveland, 80
Cogley, John, 150, 199
Cohen, Marvin, 137
Collins, Br. Frederic, 12, 31, 33, 37
Colombam, Dom, 32, 35, 37, 41
Colteran, Ted, 5–6
Comedy, 108–9
Commemorations of Saint Elizabeth, 284
Compte, Fr. Ephrem, 63
Connery, Tom, 197
Conscience of Joyce, The (O’Brien), 140, 141, 147
Consciousness, 227, 228, 252, 260, 261, 266, 274, 289
Conze, Edward, 271, 276, 287
“Creative Silences” (Merton), 131
Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, The (Sankaracharya), 223, 223n., 247–48, 257–58, 261
“Cross Fighters, The” (Merton), 22
Culture, American, 67, 69, 140, 156, 217
Curiyikad, Fr. Cherian, 297
Curmi, Fr. Vincent, 277, 277n., 279–80, 290, 291
Ceylon, xvii, 294, 306–24; Advent sermon, Merton’s, 312; ashram, 312; Colombo, 306, 307–9; 320, 325; Dambulla, 313, 313n., 322; en route, 306–7; hermits and hermitages, 310; Kandy, 308, 309–20, 321; poems/prose pastiche, Merton’s, 313–19, 320–21; Polonnauwa, 313, 313n., 321–23
Dadelson, de,). D., 83
Dalai Lama, xiii, xv, xvii, 146, 146n., 164n., 222, 227, 229, 245, 246, 254, 265, 297; first audience with Merton, 245, 249, 250–52; second audience, 258–59; third audience, 266
Dana, Doris, 4, 4n., 5, 6, 7, 23, 52
Daridan, Monsieur and Madame, 235, 236
Dasgupta, Surendranath, 306
Davenport, Guy, 3, 4
Day, Dorothy, 4n.
Death, 11, 34, 44, 51, 60, 85, 174, 177; journey as, 174; Merton’s, xvii–xix,
Debray, Regis, 24
De Floris, Abbot, 328, 328n.
Delius, Betty, 27
Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968 155, 161–62
Descartes, Rene, 99, 92
Desjardins, Armand, 227, 229, 237
De Smet, Fr., 295
Devereux, Don, 105–6, 121, 133, 177, 186
Devereux, Eileen, 121, 177
Diane, Sister, 110, 111, 119
Dimock, Jr., Edward C., 255, 256, 256n.
Di Prima, Diane, 23
Dominique, Sr., 98, 110, 164
Domostroy (Sylvester), 100
Doors, as metaphor, 285
Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem, 46
Downhill All the Way (Woolf), 3
Dreams: in Buddhism, 241 of Kanchenjunga, xiii, 284; Merton’s, 34, 56, 110, 112, 141, 206, 255
Driver, John, 245, 252
DuBois, Cora, 10
Dumont, Fr. P. Charles, 35, 37, 43
Dunn, Finley Peter, 215, 215n.
Dunne, Peter, 293–94
Dylan, Hob, 48
Dzogchen, 251, 278, 279
Eclipse, 3
Edson, Russell, 60
Edward, Dom, of Berryville, 69
Egan, Eileen, 142
Elaine Michael, Sr., from Allegany, 123
Elizabeth, Sr., Carmelite nun, 21, 22, 123
Emmanuel, Pierre, 295–96, 296n.
Engels, Friedrich, 300, 300n.
Engenberger, Hans Magnus, 58, 120
Enlightenment, 176, 229, 246, 249, 250, 261
Enslin, Ted, 137
Error and Deliverance (Gharali), 155
Essential Lenny Bruce, The, 74, 82
Evans-Wentz, Walter Yeeling, 28, 172, 172, 173, 206
“Evening” (Merton), 7
Everson, William (Bro. Antoninus), 9
Faith and Violence (Merton), 23, 23n., 49
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 101, 106, 120, 158
Ferry, W. H. “Ping,” 83, 86, 106, 131, 138, 142, 150, 199, 20
1, 248, 286, 309
Fessard, G., 18
Final Integration (Arasteh), 45, 70
Flanagan, Fr. Raymond, 62, 66, 142–43, 149–50, 156, 157
Flanagan, Lois, 218, 224
Floating Bear magazine, 23
Flood, Bro. Maurice, 20, 166, 186
Football, xv, 160–61
Ford, Ed, 117
Ford, John, 3, 6, 11, 27, 52, 76, 135, 141, 148
Forest, James, 22, 59
Foucault, Michel, 133, 133n., 271
Fox, AbbotJames, 35, 36, 43; and abbatial election, 24–25, 26, 28, 32, 38, 40, 41; conflicts with Merton, xiv, 12–13, 14, 26, 31, 52, 58; hermitage, 17, 17n., 36, 46, 77, 80, 125, 131, 146; policies, 31–32, 38, 42, 49; resignation, xiv, 8, 14, 30, 42, 46; sermon, 70
Fox, Msgr. Robert, 24
Franciscan orders, xv, 16, 20n., 21, 140
Freedgood, Anne, 44
Freedgood, Seymour, 44–45, 46, 270n.
Freedom songs, Merton’s, 73, 80, 135, 148, 158
Gannon, Fr. Jim, 76
Gannon, Leo and family, 23, 31, 36
Gardiner, Margaret, 127
Geography of Lograire (Merton), 49, 50, 51, 59, 127, 129, 132, 133, 156, 167, 199, 206n.
George, James, and wife, 235, 268
Gerarda, Sr., 110, 205
Geshe, Tenzin, 222, 245–46, 248, 250–51, 258
Gethsemani: community, 28–29, 35, 37–38, 39–43, 122, 125, 131, 133, 142, 282; construction at, 68; Dom Frederic’s Lake, 4; Edelin’s Place, 17, 17n.; hermitages, 17, 28, 38; Merton’s burial at, xviii, xix; Merton’s last day at, xvi, 186; Merton’s writing at, xiii; retreats at, 20, 20n.; St. Bernard’s pond and field, 11, 44, 47, 59, 152; teachers at, 8n.; walks at, 3–4, 6, 11, 15, 16–17, 28, 33, 44, 47, 48, 76–77, 146, 152, 155. See also Merton, Thomas
Ghazali, AI, 155, 156
Ghost Dance (Mooney), 32
Giroux, Bob, 46, 50
God, 94, 102, 103, 147, 230, 231, 274, 306
Gordan, Fr. Paul, 328, 328n.
Gorman, Jim, 57
Goulet, Dennis, 48
Grace, 260, 260n.
Graham, Dom Aelred, xv, 83, 104, 106, 121, 152, 163, 164n., 214n., 218n., 239
Greece, 129
Greene, Jonathan, 60, 83, 128, 129, 130
Gregory, Fr., 140, 105, 178
Griffin, Gregory, 19, 34
Griffin, John Howard, 4n., 6, 73n., 80, 86, 106, 110, 268, 297, 326
Groth, Al, 101, 111, 119, 153
Gruening, Ernest, 193, 193n.
Guevara, Che, 24
Guha, Naresh, 220
Gyaltsan, Lama Geshe Tenpa, 232
Hackett, J. W, 4
Haldane, J. B. S., 290
Hall, Martin, and wife, 282, 283, 284
Hamilton, Al, 45
Hammer, Carolyn, 7, 14, 49, 77, 83
Harris, John, 31
Hart, Bro. Patrick, 166, 186, 252, 268, 286
Haughton, Rosemary, 4, 4n.
Havana, 118
Hegel, G. W. F, 96
Helen Elizabeth, Sr., 284
Hesse, Hermann, xvi, 91, 196, 197, 197n., 198, 325
Hicks, Freddy, 74, 75
Hilarion, Fr., 18, 25, 31, 46, 76, 125, 126
Hildelith, Dame, 22
Hill, Ken, 4–5
Hinduism, 209, 209n., 236, 255, 255n., 301, 302n.
Hines, Fr. Denis, 104, 107, 121
Hinson, Glenn, 18
Hisamatsu, 113
Hocks, Paula, 133
Hogan, Tim, 57, 66
Hollister, Judith, 221, 221n.
Hollo, Anselm, 48, 60, 86, 87, 137
Holloway, Jim, 151
Holy Spirit Monastery, GA, 13
Homer (Fitzgerald), 32
House on the Hill, The (Pavese), 155
Huntington, Pat, 54
Hyde, Susan, 215
Ian, Janis, 3
I Ching, 31
Idols by the Path (Pemba), 290
Ignatow, David, 60
IHN Sisters, Santa Barbara, 199, 199n.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters, 73
India: Ashoka Vihara, monk at, 267; ashrams, 220, 246, 248, 270; Bhutan, 19, 231, 231n., 273, 290; Calcutta, xvii, 149, 214–18, 226–27, 266, 269–71, 295, 297–98, 325; Darjeeling, 144, 146, 149, 158, 200, 271–76, 279, 282, 303, 320; Dharamsala, xiii, xv, xvii, 226, 235, 236–66; hermitages, 235, 242; hermit center, Sonada, 292–93; hermits, 291, 292–93, 295; Himalayas, 226, 237, 240, 271; homily, Merton’s, given at Loreto Convent, 289, 294; homily, Merton’s, given at Loreto House, 222, 222n; Kurseong, Merton’s talk to Jesuit scholastics, 294, 297; Loreto College and Convent, 273, 274–75, 289; Madras, xvii, 298–306; Mahabalipuram, 302–4, 323; Mim lea Plantation, xiii, 277, 280–86, 290; New Delhi, xvii, 226–36, 266–69; St. Joseph’s College, 276, 276n., 279–80, 281–82, 294; St. Thomas Mount, 301, 302; San Thomé, 300–301; Temple of Understanding Conference, 220–21, 294
Indonesia, 129, 132, 137–38, 157, 163; Rawa Seneng monastery, xvii, 129
“Inner Experience, The” (Merton), xv–xvi
In Praise of Krishna (Dimock and Levertov), 256
Irenaeus, Bro., 133
Ishi Means Man (Merton), 4n., 11n.
Isidore, Bro., 14
Jackson, Melvin, 56
Jackson, Merrill, 22
Jacobs, Paul, 199, 286
Jainism, 221, 221n., 222
Jane, Mother, from Jackson Carmel, 69, 73, 123
Jeffers, Robinson, 138, 167, 167n.
Jerome, Bro., 9
Jesuits, 146, 159, 271, 273, 276, 276n., 277, 279–80, 281, 294, 295
John of the Cross, Fr., 66
Johnson, Lyndon B., 46–47, 51, 52, 55, 56, 61, 65, 69, 75, 76, 88, 151, 243, 250
Jones, Frank, 100, 117, 143, 200
Jones, Gracie, 112–13, 120, 129, 164
Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Mertonarticle for), 14
Journal of My Escape from the Nazis (Merton), 27, 50–51, 57, 100, 132, 133, 134, 298
Journey to the East (Hesse), 196, 197, 197n.
Joyce, James, Merton on, 76, 77, 140, 142, 144, 147, 148, 152, 156
Kanchenjunga, 271, 272, 275, 277, 279, 281, 283, 286–87, 295, 297; Merton’s dream of, xiii, 284
Karam, Mae, 199
Karmapa, Lama Gyalwa, 243, 268
Karp Winifred, 328
Katallagete magazine, 33
Kathleen, Sr., 22
Katryn, Sr., 98, 101, 104, 110, 120
Kazi, Sonam T., xvii, 237, 237n., 239–43, 245, 246, 249, 251, 263, 264, 277, 293
Kelty, Fr. Matthew, 24, 25, 46, 161
Kennedy, Ethel, 126
Kennedy, Robert, 74–75, 76, 126–27, 128
Kentucky, 8. See also Gethsemani
Kerouac, jack, 23
Kevin, Bro., 59
Khantipalo, Bhikku, 244