ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a study of a French Benedictine monk. Father Henri Le Saux, who first came to India in 1948 at the age of thirty-five and remained there for the rest of his life, becoming an Indian citizen in 1960. Abhishiktananda was one of the pioneers in an attempt to radically re-orientate European Christianity so that it would be in tune with the traditions of Indian spirituality as well as with the Indian cultural environment. When people who have a commitment to a certain spiritual tradition are confronted with a different spiritual world-view, and when they are forced to take seriously the fact that the very existence of another world-view logically calls into question the validity of their own world-view, they will then have to make a choice as to the manner in which to reconcile the alternative and thereby potentially threatening tradition with their own commitment.
