The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

The journal Merton kept on his journey to Asia from October to December 1968, published by New Directions in 1973 (445 pages), edited from his original notebooks by Naomi Burton, Patrick Hart and James Laughlin, with Amiya Chakravarty as consulting editor. It records his travels from Bangkok through India, including his meetings with the Dalai Lama, to Ceylon and back to Bangkok for the conference of Asian monastic orders at which he spoke; his last entry is dated 8 December 1968, two days before his accidental death. It is illustrated with his own photographs and includes a glossary of Asian religious terms, a preface by Chakravarty, a foreword and postscript by Hart, and appendices including the text of his final address.