Mystics and Zen masters -- Classic Chinese thought -- Love and Tao -- The Jesuits in China -- From pilgrimage to crusade -- Virginity and humanism in the Western fathers -- The English mystics -- Self-knowledge in Gertrude More and Augustine Baker -- Russian mystics -- Protestant monasticism -- Pleasant Hill -- Contemplation and dialogue -- Zen Buddhist monasticism -- The Zen Koan -- The other side of despair -- Buddhism and the modern world.