The Marriage of East and West

For more than 35 years, Bede Griffiths, a Benedictine monk, has lived in India. His Christian community in Tamil Nadu is modelled on a Hindu ashram. The Marriage of East and West is one of his near-legendary books. It is a joyful celebration of India - its life and religion.

For Bede Griffiths, the East embodies a feminine principle of non-violence, intuition and sympathy. The West is masculine: aggresive, rational and dominating. Both aspects have been refined in the respective religious traditions - the Vedic and the Judaic.