{"id":2604,"date":"2025-05-13T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2604"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:49:50","slug":"biography-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2604","title":{"rendered":"biography-5"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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When Panikkar retired in 1987 he returned to his roots in Catalonia, settling in Tavertet, a hamlet in the Catalan pre-Pyrenees that he had previously visited in 1983. In Tavertet he lived almost as a monk, while at the same time actively participating in the cultural and religious life of Catalonia, a fact witnessed by his many publications in Catalan newspapers and journals. He returned to his Catalan roots in order to complete his vital cycle, his karma,<\/em> to \u201cmake my life round or rooted, returning to the place where I was born\u201d.<\/p>

In 1989 he founded the inter-cultural study and research centre Vivarium, following a project based on the awareness that the problems we face today should not be merely approached using the tools of a single culture. Over the years, Vivarium has increasingly developed, gathering together many people every month, mainly from Barcelona and the surroundings but also from other countries, attracted by the renowned \u201ctalks\u201d that Pannikar held there. A group of scholars of Pannikar\u2019s thought was also founded, with the name of Vivarium Accademicum, while\u00a0Vivarium Artium held monthly meetings on various artistic topics.<\/p>

Although officially retired as an academic, Raimon Panikkar continued to write and publish; in the 90s he was particularly prolific. Almost half of his books have been published since then, some collections and reworkings of previous papers, others written ex novo:
\u2014La torre di Babele. Pace e pluralismo<\/em>, (San Domenico di Fiesole 1990);
\u2014Sobre el di\u00e1logo intercultural<\/em>\u00a0(Salamanca 1990);
\u2014A Dwelling Place for Wisdom<\/em>\u00a0(Louisville 1993 and Delhi 1995), with editions in German (1991 and 2002), Italian (1993 and 2005), Dutch (1997), Catalan (1997), Spanish (1998 and 1999) and Chinese (2000);
\u2014La nova innoc\u00e8ncia<\/em>\u00a0(Barcelona 1998; with editions in Spanish and Italian, including La nuova innocenza. Innocenza cosciente<\/em>, 2005), a selection of several important papers published originally in journals;
\u2014The Cosmotheandric Experience. Emerging Religious Consciousness<\/em>\u00a0(Maryknoll 1993; \u2014La intuici\u00f3n cosmote\u00e1ndrica. Las tres dimensiones de la realidad<\/em>, Madrid 1999);
\u2014Ecosofia: la nuova saggezza. Per una spiritualit\u00e0 della terra<\/em>\u00a0(Assisi 1993; Ecosof\u00eda. Para una espiritualidad de la tierra<\/em>, Madrid 1994);
\u2014Cultural Disarmament: The Way to Peace<\/em>\u00a0(Louisville 1995); \u2014Paz y desarme cultural<\/em> (Santander 1993), plus editions in Chinese (1999) and Italian (2003);
\u2014Les icones del misteri: L\u2019experi\u00e8ncia de D\u00e9u<\/em>\u00a0(Barcelona, 1998; with editions in Spanish, Italian, German and French), one of his most beautiful books on God;
\u2014Meinen wir denselben Gott?. Ein Streitgespr\u00e4ch<\/em> (M\u00fcnchen, 1994), a dialogue with Jewish theologian Pinchas Lapide;
\u2014La experiencia filos\u00f3fica de la India<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(Madrid 1997);
\u2014Il \u201cdaim\u00f4n\u201d della politica: agonia e speranza<\/em>\u00a0(Bologna 1995; L\u2019esperit de la pol\u00edtica<\/em>, Barcelona 1999);
\u2014Invisible Harmony. Essays on Contemplation and Responsibility<\/em>\u00a0(Minneapolis 1995), gathering important papers published before in journals;
\u2014Entre Dieu et le cosmos<\/em>\u00a0(Paris 1998, a long interview by Gwendoline Jarczyk, with a Catalan edition: Lleida 2006);
\u2014Christophany: The Fullness of Man<\/em>\u00a0(New York 2004); La pienezza dell’uomo. Una cristofania,<\/em> Milano 1999; La plenitud del hombre. Una cristofan\u00eda<\/em>, Madrid 1999, plus editions in German, French and Tamil; one of the last important books by Panikkar, articulating his Christophany;
\u2014El mundanal silencio<\/em>\u00a0(Madrid 1999; Premio Espiritualidad 1999);
\u2014L’Incontro indispensabile. Dialogo delle Religioni\u00a0<\/em>(Milan 2001; El di\u00e0leg indispensable. Pau entre les religions<\/em>, Barcelona 2003, plus editions in Spanish and French);
\u2014De la m\u00edstica. Experiencia plena de la vida<\/em>\u00a0(Barcelona 2005), a mature work.
\u2014La porta stretta della conoscenza. Sensi, ragione e fede\u00a0<\/em>(Milan 2005);
\u2014Pellegrinaggio al Kailash<\/em>\u00a0(Sotto il Monte 2006);
\u2014Lo spirito della parola<\/em>\u00a0(Torino 2007).<\/p>


<\/strong>\u2981 <\/b><\/strong>Raimon Panikkar\u2019s Fourfold Identity >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> A Multicultural and Multireligious Origin. From Barcelona to Rome, via Bonn, Madrid and Salamanca (1918-1954) >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> India. Christian-Hindu-Buddhist symbiosis. Meeting Monchanin and Le Saux (1955-1966) >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> University teaching in California (1966-1987) >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>The return to his Catalan roots to complete his vital cycle<\/span><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> Raimon Panikkar: Writing as a Life-style >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> Several Panikkars or a continuity within diversity? >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> Panikkar as a Lecturer >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981 <\/b><\/strong>The return to the Source >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b> <\/strong>The intellectual legacy >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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