Month: August 2023
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Chapter 3: Reflection 17 – Returning to Sources
In 1951, noted Roman Catholic theologian, Henri de Lubac, published a small collection of essays entitled, Aspects du Bouddhisme [Aspects of Buddhism]. 1 Father de Lubac was one of a number of scholars who were part of a movement within twentieth century Roman Catholic theology called “ressourcement,” for which Patricia Kelly offers the following overview: Ressourcement…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 16 – The Sweet Poison of Compassion
In a divinity school podcast episode once, scholar John Behr offered a story to assist the audience connect with the lofty world of “The Fathers of the Church” – and more specifically, Origen of Alexandria’s ultimate place amongst them. He begins by recounting a conversation he had with his wife years earlier. The discussion began…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 15 – They That Were with Me Sent for the Parson
One of the center points of the book known by many in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead [Bardo Thodol] is a section called, “The Great Liberation by Hearing.” It is this section that is read to the dying and the dead. An advisor to the Dalai Lama and Dzogchen teacher, Khamtrul Rinpoche…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 14 – An Image of Comfort
My curate was sent for to be at my ending, and by then he cam I had set up my eyen and might not speake. He set the cross before my face, and said: ‘I have brought thee the image of thy saviour. Looke thereupon and comfort thee therwith.’ 1 In her Short Text, Julian…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 