The Beyond Within: The Downtown Dao of Lan Su Chinese Garden - Softcover

Skach-Mills, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069283818X ISBN 13: 9780692838181

Publisher: Daniel Skach-Mills, 2017

Synopsis

"The Beyond Within: The Downtown Dao of Lan Su Chinese Garden" was a Finalist in the 2018 Body, Mind, Spirit Book Awards, and a 12th annual National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Spirituality. In "The Beyond Within," Lan Su Chinese Garden docent and award-winning author Daniel Skach-Mills opens the garden to us the way someone might breathlessly unlock a long-lost heirloom jewelry chest. Before our eyes, he pulls from the garden’s trove treasure after glittering treasure. Combining the glinting facets of five of the garden’s key elements with light from five Daoist principles, Skach-Mills guides us to where we, too, can reach inside this “jewel box in the city” and reclaim for ourselves the most precious gem of all—our true face.Illustrated with black-and-white brush paintings by artist Lu Kesi, this book can be used as a practical guide to Chinese gardens, and as a spiritual guide to rediscovering the Beyond within yourself.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Skach-Mills is an award-winning author and poet. His writing has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including: Sufi Magazine; The Christian Science Monitor; and Sojourners. He has received awards from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (2013/2015); the Writer's Digest 21st Annual Book Awards (2013); and the Oregon Book Awards (2012) sponsored by Oregon Literary Arts. Daniel currently lives with his partner of 25 years in Portland, Oregon, where he has served as a volunteer docent for Lan Su Chinese Garden since 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Daniel Skach-Mills
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 069283818X
• ISBN 13: 9780692838181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150
• Illustrator: Kesi Lu