Raimon Panikkar, priest, theologian, pioneer of interreligious understanding died 10 yrs ago on Aug 26 2010. The son of a Catholic mother from Spain and a Hindu father from India, he found the path to reconciling his religious identity when he traveled to India in 1954.
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“I left Europe as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned a Buddhist without ever ceasing to be a Christian.” In what he called the “cosmotheandric principle” he found the interplay between God, humanity, and the cosmos that runs through all religions.
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His interreligious explorations did not diminish his Christian identity, he said; they enabled him to grasp and verify the truth that Christ is everywhere, in the nature of reality and other religious paths. His Omnia Opera, in progress
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