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• Nhât Hanh, Thích. Aujourd'hui le bouddhisme (Saigon, Cholon: Lá Bó̂i, 1965). Inscribed by the author to Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Nguyen-van-Huy, Pierre. Métaphysique du bonheur chez Albert Camus (Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1962). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Nesmy, Jean. Les quatre saisons de la forêt (Paris: Spes, 1926). Inscribed by the author to Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Nesmy, Jean. A l'ombre des Châtaigniers (Paris: Spes, [1929]). Inscribed by the author to Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Neruda, Pablo. Residence on Earth: translated by Clayton Eshleman ([Kyoto? Japan]: Amber House Press; San Francisco: Distributed by City Lights Books, 1962). Inscribed to Thomas Merton by Clayton Eshleman. Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Naumann, Bernd. Auschwitz, a report on the proceedings against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka and others before the court at Frankfurt; translated by Jean Steinberg; with an introduction by Hannah Arendt (London: Pall Mall P., 1966 [i.e. 1967]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Narasimhan, Chakravarthi V. The Mahābhārata: an English version based on selected verses (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Ñanamoli, Bhikkhu. The practice of lovingkindness (Metta): as taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon (Kandy, Ceylon: Buddhist Publication Society, 1964). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Christine M. Bochen - Created for Joy: Becoming Who We Are, Together. Presented for the Tuesdays with Merton Series, February 9, 2021.
  During these turbulent, uncertain times of pandemics – corona virus, racism, unbridled individualism – and, thankfully, of moral reckoning, Thomas Merton offers a welcome and much needed message of hope. He reminds us that we are “created for JOY.” In this presentation, we will consider how Merton experienced and envisioned joy, particularly the joy of being human and the joy of friendship. For Merton, joy is both promise and vocation. How, then inspired by Merton, might we learn to delight in the “immense joy” of being human and “together . . . travel our own road to joy”? Christine M. Bochen, professor emerita of religious studies at Nazareth College, Rochester, New York and a founding member and past president of the International Thomas Merton Society, has taught courses, given retreats, and spoken on Merton in a variety of venues in the United States, Canada, and abroad. Christine is co-author, with William H. Shannon and Patrick F. O’Connell, of The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia; editor of Courage for Truth, Learning to Love, and Thomas Merton: Essential Writings; and co-editor, with William H. Shannon, of Cold War Letters and Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters.
• Jim Finley - Turning to Thomas Merton as a Trustworthy Guide in the Gentle Art of Contemplative Living. Presented for the Tuesdays with Merton Series, January 12, 2021.
  In our time together I will share aspects of Merton’s life and teachings that had a profound and lasting effect in my own life and in my attempts to pass on to others what Thomas Merton has passed on to me. These foundational aspects of Merton’s life and teachings include our own unfolding life with all its blessings and broken edges embodying the presence of God that protects us from nothing even as it unexplainably sustains us in all things, as well as Merton’s vision of the hidden wholeness where everything connects as realized in the con­templative depths of the world’s great religions and in all of life. Dr. James Finley received spiritual guidance from Thomas Merton as a novice at the Abbey of Gethse­mani. He is a contemplative teacher and writer and a retired clinical psychologist. He leads the weekly podcast “Turning to the Mystics” in his role as core teacher in the Living School for Action and Contemplation founded by Father Richard Rohr. James is the author of Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, The Contemplative Heart, and Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God.