Month: June 2022
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Chapter 1: Reflection 7 – She Told Him to Go … So Off He Went
When Anselm of Canterbury was about 11 years old, on the other side of the world, a very significant figure emerged in the history of Buddhism in Tibet, namely, the Indian Bengali teacher Atisa Dīpamkara (982-1054). And there are intriguing similarities between these two men. Both were skilled and successful scholars and philosophers, both were…
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Chapter 1: Reflection 6 – Omnium Sanctorum & The Birth of the Blues
After spending some time in Bangkok, Calcutta, and New Delhi, it was on the first of November, the great Feast of All Saints – In Festo Omnium Sanctorum – that the TM arrived in Dharamsala, the northern Indian city on the edge of the Himalayas. 1 It was here that His Holiness the Dalai Lama and…
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Chapter 1: Reflection 5 – Nether by Veyn Glorie, But in Mekenesse
In 1988, Vincent Gillespie, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at Oxford, and Maggie Ross (Martha Reeves), an Anglican Solitary or Anchorite, made a commitment to read and discuss Julian’s A Revelation together. 1 But this was no ordinary collaborative reading endeavor. Although they together brought years of study, reflection, and discipline to this…
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Chapter 1: Reflection 4 – A Passion for the Passion
In the very first words of A Revelation, Julian references the Passion of Christ as she begins to introduce her showings: “[O]f which the first is about his precious crowning of thorns.” 1 The first chapter contains a number of such references, which identify critically important imagery and themes for the rest of the text:…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 