The Raft Is Not the Shore

Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness

Authors: Thích Nhất Hạnh,Daniel Berrigan

Published: January 1, 2001

Meeting for long, midnight conversations in Paris, two poets and prophetic peacemakers explore together the farthest reaches of truth.

East and West flow together in this remarkable book as Vietnamese monk Thích Nhất Hạnh and Jesuit Daniel Berrigan discuss war and peace, Jesus and Buddha, life and death.

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