This is an interview
done by Phil Cousineau with Huston Smith. Phil asks
Huston to tell the story of his meeting in India in 1968
with Thomas Merton, shortly before Merton's death. The
interview was done in 2010 at the Berkeley Buddhist
Monastery.
DANA SAWYER is a full-time professor of religion and
philosophy at the Maine College of Art and an adjunct
professor of Asian religions at the Bangor Theological
Seminary. He is the author of numerous published papers
and books, including Aldous Huxley: A Biography, which
Laura Huxley described as, "Out of all the
biographies written about Aldous, this is the only one
he would have actually liked."
Special
thanks to the Vedanta
Archives for the use of these films.
Dana
Sawyer: Aldous Huxley and the Spiritual Mission of Art
(Vedanta Temple, Hollywood, CA, 1/5/2003) a Vedanta
Archives film