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TABLE OF CONTENTS


I. Myth and reality                                                                                 
1. Legend; 2. Myth-poiesis; 3. Hagiography; 4. Heteronomy; 5. Life and work; 6. This book.


II. Early years (1918-1939)      
1. Mother and father; 2. Marriage of Carmen and Ramuni; 3. Birth; 4. Images of an adolescence; 5. Civil war.


III. Numerary in Spain (1940-1953)
1. New Year’s Eve; 2. Studies, spiritual formation and first writings; 3. Ordination to the priesthood; 4. Priest, numerary, philosopher in Madrid (1946-1949); 5. Salamanca (1950-1953); 6. Three books.


IV. In Rome and in India for the first time (1953-1958)
1.  First Sojourn in Rome; 2. Why did he go to India?; 3. First Sojourn in India; 4. Three Musketeers; 5. Priesthood of Melchisedech; 6. First literary success.

V. In Rome again (1958-1963)
1. Second Sojourn in Rome; 2. Two doctorates; 3. Enrico Castelli, teacher and friend; 4. Meetings and papers; 5. Chaplain (and) academician.

VI. Storm (1963-1966)
1. Isolation in Milan; 2. Tensions and departure; 3. Silenced in India; 4. The Council and the Vatican; 5. With Abishiktananda at Gangotri and Arunachala; 6. Two important texts; 7. Mysterious epilogue.
                      
VII. Transition period (1966-1971)
1. A new beginning; 2. Vedic team; 3.  Harvard; 4. Death of his mother; 5. In perpetual motion; 6. Four papers; 7. God wrapped in the silence of the smiling Buddha.

VIII. Between two worlds (1972-1982)
1. University of California at Santa Barbara; 2. California Dreamin’; 3. Sacred secularity; 4. Posthumous portrait of Abhishiktananda; 5. Last contacts with Enrico Castelli; 6. Artist of the dialogue; 7. Archetype of the monk.

IX. Tavertet (1983-2010)
1. Return; 2. Marriage; 3. Personality and work; 4. Tensions and dramas; 5. Penultimate view; 6. A drop of water falls into the ocean.

Epilogue:  Panikkar City

Chronology

Notes




Panikkar. The Man and His Thought
(fragments in english)
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