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Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
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Excerpt from "The (Almost) Final Days of Thomas Merton: A Conversation with Harold Talbott." Interview conducted by Bonnie B. Thurston.
Harold Talbott describes how he came to know both Thomas Merton and the Dalai Lama. After having met Merton 10 years earlier at Gethsemani Abbey, Talbot met Merton again in New Delhi and brought Merton to meet the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala. Bonnie Thurston interviews Harold Talbott. -
1968: Telegram to Thomas Merton from Tenzin Geyshe Tethong, the Dalai Lama's secretary
Telegram to Merton in Calcutta, possibly from the Dalai Lama's secretary Tenzin Geyshe Tethong, setting up a meeting time on November 4, 1968. Part of the message is cut off. -
1968-11: Card from Thomas Merton to Patrick Hart, November 1968
Greeting card from Thomas Merton to Patrick Hart regarding his meeting with the Dalai Lama. Merton wrote this card from from Dharamsala, India - printed with drawings of yaks and a phrase with the translation "May you have a long life, free from illness, full of happiness and prosperity."