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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) 
Information for the reader: The parts that can be read are underlined. Click on the chapter you want to read. The text is without foonotes. The translation is by Leonardo Di Lisio. |
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