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It’s a Sunday morning in Kyoto and I am sitting on the long wooden steps of the ho?jo?, the abbott’s residence of Ryo?anji Temple – one of 1,600 temples in this historic city.
At my feet is the temple’s famous karesansui, or dry rock garden. In a small rectangle of white gravel, measuring just twenty-five by ten meters and raked to perfection by the monks each morning, fifteen stones have been arranged in such a way that they are never all visible from the same vantage point.
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