A tourist studying a brochure in front Ryoanji's famous rock garden. The tranquility of the rock garden is smothered periodically by enormous busloads of tourists. As a tour group gathers at the edge of the garden, their tour guide uses a megaphone to yell out an explanation of how quiet contemplation of the austere garden is reputed to bring inner peace.

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