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Brothers in the beloved community, the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr., Marc Andrus

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Brothers in the beloved community, the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr., Marc Andrus

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

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portraits

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

Brothers in the beloved community

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bibliography

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Marc Andrus

Sub title

the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.

Summary

The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: "I did not sleep last night... They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us... He made us so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss." Only a few years earlier, Thich Nhat Hanh had written an open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. as part of his effort to raise awareness and bring peace in Vietnam. There was an unexpected outcome of Nhat Hanh's letter to King: the two men met in 1966 and became not only allies in the peace movement, but friends. This friendship between two prophetic figures from different religions and cultures, from countries at war with one another, reached a great depth in a short period of time. Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He wrote: "Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity." The two men bonded over a shared vision of the Beloved Congressman John Lewis as "a nation and world society at peace with itself." It was a concept each knew of because of their membership within the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international peace organisation, and that Martin Luther King Jr. had been popularising through his work for some time. Thich Nhat Hanh, Andrus shows, took the lineage of the Beloved Community from King and carried it on after his death. In Brothers in the Beloved Community, Marc Andrus tells the little-known story of a friendship between two giants of our time

Table Of Contents

Lotus in a sea of fire -- Moving into the world house -- The lineage of the beloved community -- A letter across the divide -- Friendship and common cause -- I have always felt his support -- Thich Nhat Hanh and the beloved community -- Conclusion: a genuine civilization struggling to be born -- Appendix: beloved community circles -- Gratitude -- Notes

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