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Author QuotedMarco Pallis
Title QuotedPeaks and Lamas
Date (Year/Month/Day)1963/07/00
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1939I
QuotationFirst of all, I hope you will forgive the typewriter. I do not type well, but my writing is worse, and I am used to the machine, much as I regret to confess it to the author of Peaks and Lamas. I read your book several years ago and found it very congenial indeed. I certainly envy you your experience with Tibetan monasticism, and I hope at least the young lamas in New Jersey will eventually come down here, as I am not able to go to them, due to our strict interpretation of the laws of enclosure here.
Quotation SourceThe Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 464
Letter toMarco Pallis
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