This is a book about a man and his dream. The man was Karl Ludvig Reichelt, who was born in Norway on September 1, 1877 and died in Hong Kong on March 13, 1952. His dream was to bring the Christian message to the Buddhist monks of China in such a way that they would see in it not the destruction, but the fulfillment of all that they valued most highly: to interpret Christianity to Buddhists (and in some measure also Buddhism to Christians) in the setting of a retreat and study centre designed and built for the purpose.