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The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Buddhist and Christian

These dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi, one of the first American-born Zen masters, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, the Roman Catholic monk and hermit, took place during a week-long retreat the two old friends undertook in 1991 in a remote part of the island of Hawaii. Their aim was to approach the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity in a fresh way, one that takes as its starting point a comparison of the personal experiences of the dialoguers — as a Buddhist and as a Christian, respectively — rather than abstract concepts. The result is the discovery of a surprising amount of common ground — the kind of shared experience that forms a solid foundation for further dialogue.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 252
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781570622199
  • Genres
  • buddhism, religion, spirituality, christianity, christian, zen
  • Release date
  • 1996