The Stillness in Movement: A Buddhist Reading of Ash-Wednesday

Commonly seen as a religious poem that reflects T. S. Eliot’s conversion to Catholicism, Ash-Wednesday demonstrates intensively the poet’s religious experience, especially the union of the spiritual stillness and the movements in time which verges on mysticism. However, such extraordinary experience...

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Main Author:	Chutian Xiao
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Warwick 2017-10-01
Series:	Exchanges
Subjects:	T. S. Eliot Ash-Wednesday movement Buddhism timeless divinity
Online Access:	https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/article/view/216

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The Stillness in Movement: A Buddhist Reading of Ash-Wednesday

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