How should one dwell in endtime? In this SPIDER-spun web of a book Wendi Adamek guides readers
to the visual and textual traces left by Buddhist nuns monks and devotees on mountainsides in
Baoshan north central China and through them the soteriology of Buddhism in the medieval
world. The convents have vanished and the stones weathered but the skillful work in
maintaining co-constitutive relations is as palpable as ever. Thoroughly researched and
artfully written this deeply affecting book advances scholarship without leaving the lay
reader behind. The comparative insights theory-work and appended transcriptions of this
definitive study constitute a gift to past present and future travelers. (Dorothy Ko author
of The Social Lives of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China)
