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Swami Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux OSB) was a French Benedictine monk who went to India in 1948 and devoted his life to becoming a bridge between East and West, between Hinduism and Christianity. To mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of this great pioneer of interreligious dialogue, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue sponsored a symposium in January 2010 at Shantivanam, the ashram he and Abbé Jules Monchanin founded in 1950. This book charts the influence that Abhishiktananda had on Christianity in India, on other spiritual seekers engaging with Hinduism and Christianity, and the continuing importance of his work today.

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William Skudlarek is a monk of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, and Secretary General of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue. In addition to having taught homiletics and liturgy at the School of Theology/Seminary of Saint John's University in Collegeville, he served as a priest associate of the Maryknoll Mission Society in Brazil. From 1994 to 2001 he was appointed to the monastery founded by Saint John's Abbey in Japan. He has recently been reappointed to that community, Trinity Benedictine Monastery in Fujimi (Nagano prefecture). In 2014 William was named a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Bettina Baümer is a renowned Indologist, one of the foremost expounders of Kashmir Saivism, and a well known figure in the field of inter-religious dialogue.

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