Trappist Father Thomas Merton is pictured with Dalai Lama in 1968, whom Merton met during his Asia trip. Morgan Atkinson's new documentary on Father Merton, the famed Trappist monk from the Cistercian abbey in Gethsemani, Kentucky, was "40 years in the making," he joked. (CNS photo/Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University) See MERTON May 4, 2015.
Trappist Father Thomas Merton pictured in 1968 with Dalai Lama
