I. FOREWARD / LIMINAIRE 

II. TESTIMONIALS, REFLECTIONS, REPORTS / TÉMOIGNAGES, RÉFLEXIONS, CCOMPTES-RENDUS

1. Testimonials / Témoignages  

Ma Atmajyoti-Ananda, THE SECRET OF INDIA – THE CALL WITHIN: Swami Amritarupananda and Ma Atmajyoti-Ananda – in Dialogue
A dialogue on personal spiritual experience and understanding, including the contemplation of “I AM” and the influence of the Christian and Indian spiritual traditions on the quest for the Absolute.

Bettina Bäumer, MARC, MON FRÈRE NON-NÉ : SOUVENIRS DE MARC CHADUC – SWAMI AJĀTĀNANDA
An account of the author’s friendship with the beloved disciple of Swami Abhishiktānanda – Henri Le Saux, osb (1910-1973), based on her experience and his letters and meditations.

2. Reflections / Réflexions

 Anandam Lourdu, THE RELEVANCE OF BEDE GRIFFITHS’ VISION FOR TODAY
An edited version of a talk given at Shantivanam in December, 2013, to commemorate the twentieth mahasamadhi of Bede Griffiths and the fortieth mahasamadhi of Swami Abhishiktananda. The author highlights Griffiths’ thinking on dialogue with religions and cultures, the West’s emphasis on science and reason, the place of Christianity in the wider context of cosmic revelation, and the Incarnation as the historical character of God’s action in human history.

Jean-Bernard Simon-Vermot, COMPASSION BOUDDHIQUE ET CHARITÉ CHRÉTIENNE : DIFFÉRENCE ET COMPLÉMENTARITÉ
What do Buddhist compassion and Christian charity have in common, how do they differ, and how might they eventually be able to complement one another?

B.Rakshakanathan, THE “BLENDED” ADVAITIC EXPERIENCES OF BEDE GRIFFITHS AND SWAMI ABHISHIKTANANDA
An edited version of a talk given at Shantivanam in December, 2013, to commemorate the twentieth mahasamadhi of Bede Griffiths and the fortieth mahasamadhi of Swami Abhishiktananda. The author highlights the importance of the Upanishads and Vedas for these two mystics' advaitic experience of supreme consciousness.

William Skudlarek, JOHN PAUL II ON INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Photos accompanied by excerpts drawn principally from the speeches Pope John Paul gave on his apostolic journeys to countries where the majority of the population is not Catholic or Christian.A link to a brief PowerPoint presentation is given at the end of the introduction.

Sebastian Painadath, IN SEARCH OF HARMONY: JOURNEYING WITH POPE JOHN PAUL II
Some of Pope John Paul's key statements on a culture of interreligious harmony. 

3. Reports / Comptes-rendus

Matteo Nicolini-Zani,  THE 2013 MEETING OF THE ITALIAN DIM
A dialogue on the experience and meaning of the monastic life with representatives of the Buddhist (Zen and Tibetan), Hindu, Taoist, and Muslim spiritual traditions. The full version of this report, in Italian, can  be accessed on the website of DIM Italia.

Marie Pinlou, BULLETIN DES COMMISSIONS FRANCOPHONES, No 49 - JANVIER 2014

Griselda Cos, COMISIÓN IBÉRICA BOLETÍN Nº 34 - 201

Ajeesh Kunjarakattu ANNUAL MEETING OF BENEDICTINE INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE (INDIA-SRI LANKA)

III. STUDIES / ÉTUDES (Peer-reviewed articles / Articles soumis à un examen) 

IV. RESOURCES / RESSOURCES 

1. Book reviews / Recensions

Paulo Trianni and William Skudlarek eds.,CRISTO E L’ADVAITA: LA MISTICA DI HENRI LE SAUX O.S.B. TRA CRISTIANESIMO ED INDUISMO
This book makes public the presentations given at a monastic-academic colloquium held in 2010, the centenary of the birth of Dom Henri Le Saux. In this review article Francis Tiso offers a philosophical and theological evaluation of Le Saux's involvement in inter/intra-religious dialogue. His role, Tiso proposes, was principally that “of a European, a Western man, stripped of most of his Western cultural props, coming to terms with the same contradictions that tormented Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, Barth, Eliade, and even Thomas Merton.”   

John Andrew Morrow, THE COVENANTS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD WITH THE CHRISTIANS OF THE WORLD
Translation and analysis of six covenants attributed to the Prophet Muhammad that regulate relations between Muslims and Christian. Reviewed by Benoît Standaert.

Addison Hodges Hart, THE OX-HERDER AND THE GOOD SHEPHERD: FINDING CHRIST ON THE BUDDHA'S PATH
Although the differences between the Buddha and the Christ are evident, both taught that true religion was a matter of the depths, of interior transformation, and that it must result in compassion. Reviewed by William Skudlarek.

2. Notice of recent and forthcoming books / Avis de livres récents et à venir

Miroslav Volf, ed., DO WE WORSHIP THE SAME GOD? JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS IN DIALOGUE

Catherine Corneille, ed., THE WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANION TO INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

Jeannine Hill Fletcher, MOTHERHOOD AS METAPHOR: ENGENDERING INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIAN THEOLOGY

Raimon Panikkar, PARLIAMO DELLO STESSO DIO?

Raimon Panikkar, DIALOGO INTERCULTURALE E INTERRELIGIOSO

Elizabeth Harris, ed., HOPE: A FORM OF DELUSION? BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES

Francis X. Clooney SJ, HIS HIDING PLACE IS DARKNESS: A Hindu-Christian Theopoetics of Divine Absence 

A listing of recent books in Spanish can be found in the current issue of the Bulletin of the Iberian Commission for Monastic Interreligious Dialogue

3. Documents

Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF HANAMATSURI IN JAPAN, 8 APRIL 2014.
The message is also available in Japanese. 

Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue,MESSAGE FOR MAHAVIR JAYANTI 2014
The message is also available in Hindi

Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF VESAKH (24 April 2014)
French,  English, Italian

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, INTERVIEW 
The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue speaks on the meaning of the feast of Vesakh and the significance of this year's greetings to Buddhists.

Pope Francis, MESSAGE
Sent on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Italiano  Espanhol

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, DIALOGUE IN TRUTH AND CHARITY
Document issued by the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation.

Rev. Fr. Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, 50 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Address given by the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation.