ANDONG, SOUTH KOREA — The slight woman in the slate-gray monk’s robes was taking a meditative walk in the woods when she happened upon the bulldozers. She had spent more than a decade in solitude, ...
``Gasa’’ is a translateration of a Sanskrit term meaning monk's robe; the monk's or nun's robe is made from scraps of material. The Sanskrit term denotes decayed, impure (in color), dyed, not of ...