"The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent ...

A spirited young man journeys into the mountains of China in search of a Buddhist hermit master. Along the trail he meets an unexpected cast of dedicated recluses; the gaunt ascetic, the persevering ...

38 x 46.5 cm. (15 x 18.3 in.) ...

Photographer Stephen Johnson and poet-translator Mike O'Connor team up to provide a beautiful marriage of word and image in Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem. The ...