Bede Griffiths | May 28, 2004

Bede Griffiths (1906 - 1994) was an English Benedictine monk who settled in India in 1955, where he deepened his own Christian spirituality and went on to become one of the great mystical teachers of our time. In India he assumed the dress and ascetic discipline of a Hindu holy man and established a Christian community, following the customs of the Hindu ashram. His thinking always remained rooted in Catholicism but his openness to the Hindu tradition made him known as an interreligious person.