A Tibetan monastery, emerges from the early morning mist, atop the hill of Namo Buddha in Nepal, the sacred places where the Buddha Shakyamuni, in one of his former lives, is said to have given his body to a starving tigress and her cubs. September, 2006. This photograph is the cover of Matthieu Ricard's book Motionless Journey: From a Hermitage in the Himalayas.