Song-shan  ( 嵩山 Sōng Shān )
China's Central Daoist Sacred Mountain   
My Visit, June 1983   
Copy of an ancient portrait,
from China's Shaolin Temple
painted for me by a monk
on Jeju Island in 1987
Paintings of
Bodhidharma
in My Office:
Shaolin Monastery  (少林寺 Shàolínsì)

Legendary Home of Bodhidharma,  Seon [Chan, Zen] Buddhism
and Kung-fu (功夫 gōngfū) or Wushu (武術)
These are pages from the photo-diary notebook I created during my epic six-week
exploration of Mainland China's most famous places, in May-June of 1983
painted for me by a monk
at Jikji-sa Temple in 1996