En Septiembre del 2022, S.E.. Maestro Maitreya Samyaksambuddha ha otorgado la Transmisión Espiritual In Memoriam del GAUTAMA PEACE PRIZE a Thomas Merton, por su contribución a la Paz Mundial y al Diálogo Cristianismo-Zen.
El Premio de la Paz fue recibido por el Thomas Merton Center.
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Dear Zen Master Maitreya,
Thank you for your kind words and your nomination of Thomas Merton as recipient for the Gautama Peace Prize in 2022.
In 1963 Merton was awarded the Pax Peace Prize. He was unable leave the monastery to collect it in person but in his acceptance speech, read in absentia, he referred those present to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris, Peace on Earth, writing:
“Pacem in Terris is a reminder to the conscience of every reasonable human being on the face of the earth that each one of us has a strict obligation to work for world peace, for the peaceful arbitration of all disputes, and for the peaceful settlement of the social, international, interracial, religious, economic and political problems in which we may be directly or indirectly involved.”
And I am sure he would regard the Gautama Peace Prize in much the same light, though he would be deeply saddened and horrified by the continued proliferation of both wars and nuclear weapons in the years since his death.
So yes, the Merton Center would be honored to accept this award in recognition of Merton’s work to further peace, racial justice and dialogue.
In peace,
Paul.
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Dr Paul M Pearson.
Director and Archivist,
Thomas Merton Center,
Bellarmine University,
Maitriyana Buddhist Community 
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