Sorority Initiaitions

The LT's reviews - "Witness for Europe", AA.VV. and "The River from the mouth to the source", by P. Scanziani

AA.VV., "Witness of Europe." Introduction to the work of Piero Scanziani "Swiss Edition, Chiasso (Switzerland) 1991
and
Piero Scanziani," River from the mouth to the source "Swiss Editions, Morbio (Switzerland) 1996

Figure of Piero Scanziani is atypical in the literary scene Italian. Born in 1908 in Canton Ticino , Scanziani has always written in Italian, is distinguished by a highly heterogeneous production: novels, drama ( Alessandro of 1968), various essays, some of argument Wisdom - think of Aurobindo (1973) and especially Entronauta ( 1969) - an autobiography, just River from the mouth to the source where the third person, is narrated his adventure and human spiritual.

Witness of Europe is a compilation of contributions by several authors put together to celebrate the eighty years Scanziani of . The first volume collects the author's comments on literary path, the second part is devoted to his vision of the world (an outstanding contribution posthumous Massimo Scaliger, the affectionate profile spiritual dashed by his second wife and a Gaia Grimani short written Emilio Servadio ) and the third part contains testimonies of journalists and cultural figures.
What emerges is a portrait in the round of this isolated voice, twice proposed for the Nobel Prize for literature, which has ranged as a pansòfo Renaissance, from medicine (see the trilogy The art of longevity, L 'Art of youth and The art of healing) to zoology (Scanziani was the "creator of the Neapolitan mastiff) to literature itself. All
, to resume his neologism, from "Entronauta" or inner explorer.

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Hidden trolls "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, notebooks and the practice of Buddhism for dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

People Sleeping In Compression Shorts

The LT's reviews - "The Legend of Buddha", by E. Schure

Edouard Schure, " The Legend of Buddha", Ades Edizioni, Milan 1994

The Alsatian Schure ( 1841-1929) made history as the author of The Great Initiates ( 1887), published in Italian for the first time since the publishing house Laterza 1920 and republished by the same publishing house in recent years. The publishing house also published Bari inspirer Women (published in the original 1908) and for the first time in Italian in 1922 ; Evolution divine, a text of 1912 republished by Tilopa in 1983.

Thought Schure of is framed in the context of theosophy, which broke away in the last year of life for the 'affaire " Krishnamurti. His vision of Buddhism is inevitably dated, avowedly inspired to "Light of Asia " by Edwin Arnold .
introduction, Om Oskraham and Halladhah Hanahit moved on the same anachronistic land, stressing that the engine of the various historical religions would be the core of their esoteric Buddhism that is the Lamaism. "... We believe that only the Tibetan Lamaism, the caretaker who was the Way of Knowledge Buddha as the Great Initiates who preceded him and followed him "(p. 17 of the introduction)." Prince Siddhartha ... was part of a very old congregation ... (the) Holy and Revered Hierarchy of Masters " (page 4 of the introduction).

Despite these reservations, however, the story is the adventure of Schure Buddha is tender and poetic, although incomplete (the famous four meetings that will push Siddhartha on the path of spiritual quest are, for example, reduced to two, the sick and the funeral).

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Wisdom "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996