Böcker av Patrick Henry

You want insights for living? Look to people whose understandings have been practiced for fifteen hundred years. Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica, his twin sister, established a flexible pattern that has adopted, adapted, challengedand outlivedmyriad cultures. Their sons and daughters today, who devote their time and talents to the ';school for the Lord's service' launched by the Rule of Benedict, demonstrate a whole range of options that are accessible to anyone. It is a mistake to think that ';forsaking the world' is the Benedictine option. Options (plural) are, instead, ';for the sake of the world.'

St Benedict's Rule is a set of guidelines that has governed Christian monastic life since the 6th century. In this book four Buddhist scholars look at the Rule, revealing through personal anecdotes, lively debate and thoughtful comparison how the wisdom of each tradition can revitalize the other.