... Pharaohs built their pyramids as signs of their presumed immortality; the Chinese emperors brought their armies of terracotta soldiers to the grave ... ... reality on one side, from the ultimate reality that is represented by the pagoda found in the middle of a lake where a Buddhist monk lives. The mo... ...out even realizing he is doing it. One day a woman comes to the monk’s pagoda with her adolescent daughter in tow, who speaks to no one and is c... ...e woman goes out and walks away, but there is a hole in the ice around the pagoda and the woman falls in and dies. The young monk, who has alread...