Christian ashram movement

[4][3] In the footsteps of Upadhyay and Sen (second half of the 20th century) came French priest Jules Monchanin (who was later to adopt the name Parma Arupi Anananda), and French Benedictine monk Henri le Saux (who was later to adopt the name Abhishiktananda), the co-founders of Saccidananda Ashram (also called Shantivanam), an ashram founded in 1950 at Tannirpalli in Tiruchirapalli District and still surviving into the 21st century.

[6] In the late seventeenth, early eighteenth, century, P. Charles François Dolu and Jean-Venance Bouchet designed Catholic ceremonies that integrated Hindu traditions.

[14] Griffiths hoped to restore Christianity to what he considered its roots where meditation and direct experience of God was emphasized, as with the Desert Fathers.

[citation needed] While never losing sight of the fact that Jesus is the way to salvation, in the movement the idea (from the New Testament) that "the Kingdom of God is within [or among] you" (Luke 17:21) is married to the Hindu concept of the atman.

[citation needed] Brother John Martin Sahajananda summarizes this Roman Catholic teaching as, "All the sacred scriptures are a gift of God to humanity.".