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- 1965 (Creation)
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1 folder, 2 items, 2 pages
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Biographical history
The following memorial for Mahanambrata Brahmachari was written after his death in 1999 by Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Bankim Dasgupta was born in 1904 in Bengal (in a part of India that is now in Bangladesh). In 1925 he was initiated in the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, founded by Sri Caitanya in the fifteenth century, specifically into a sect (the Mahanam Sampradaya) that focused on the power of God’s name, ‘Hari, Krishna’, and at this point took his familiar name Mahanambrata Brahmachari (which might be translated, ‘the monk whose dedication is entirely to the "great name"’). (Source: Clooney, Francis X., S.J. "In Memoriam: Mahanambrata Brahmachari [25 December 1904–18 October 1999]". The Merton Annual, No. 13 [October 2000]: 123-126.)
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Scope and content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Brahmachari, Mahanambrata".
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Records are arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
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Conditions governing access
Regulations governing use of the collection can be found here: (‹https://bellarmine.libraryhost.com/index.php/rules›).
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See also one published letter from Merton to Brahmachari in «The Road to Joy» (‹https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A26858205›), pp. 122-123. See also Merton's description of his friendship with Brahmachari in «The Seven Storey Mountain» (‹https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A385657›), p 122-123.