July 2023

On First Visiting South Asia, 50 Years Later (II)

On July 7, 1973, I arrived in Kathmandu, a young Jesuit beginning “regency,” that active period that falls between philosophy studies and the theology studies that lead to ordination.

 

That July day I embarked on what is now a fifty-year course in learning from South Asia’s Hindu traditions. I was busy teaching high school classes at St. Xavier’s School...

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On First Visiting South Asia, 50 Years Later (I)

This week marks fifty years since my first visit to South Asia and the beginning of my lifelong learning from Hindu traditions. On July 4, 1973, I flew from Kennedy Airport, New York, to Nepal. The flight was terribly delayed leaving New York, but my ever-patient parents and sisters waited with me all those extra hours until finally my plane took off. It was Pan Am 1, a West-East flight around the world, lengthened and blessed by a series of refueling stops: New York – London – Paris – Rome –...

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