Did Thomas Merton write "I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity" ? If so, in which writing? Did Thomas Merton write the following:


  "I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity"


If so, in which writings?

I read this in many places such as this one but am unable to find the original writing of Merton in which it is mentioned.
David Steindl-Rast, "Man of Prayer," in Thomas Merton, Monk, ed. Patrick Hark (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1976), 90.


The 1974 ed. doesn't have such a quote, so, considering the influence of Modernism (spec. religious indifferentism) on the post-Vatican II religious life, either Merton himself became a Modernist or the author interpolated that quote.