Under the eye of an old Buddhist monk a young one passes through the seasons of life. Spring: the boy monk laughs after tying stones to the bodies of some animals. He will be forced to think this over when the old monk does the same to him. Summer: the seventeen-year-old monk falls in love with a girl who has come to be cured on the platform on the lake where the adolescent lives with his teacher. Fall: … the story continues in an environment in which nature is an integral part of life’s becoming.
