Dharmakāya, Kénōsis and Agápē

Days Before He Died, Thomas Merton Gave Us a Shimmering Summary of Mystical Truth.

Six days before his untimely death in Bangkok, Thailand at the age of 53, Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk and American mystic who was touring Southeast Asia at the time, visited the Gil Vihara monastery, an ancient sacred site in Poḷonnaruwa, Sri Lanka (in Merton’s day, Ceylon). This 12th-century Buddhist temple is remarkable for several large statues …