The Front Cover

The picture at the lower right-hand corner depicts the old farmer, I saw as myself in my previous incarnation. I died at 72 in 1932. “Tan” is my Chinese / Hokkien family birth name, and “Tanpo Aran” in Javanese means “Without Name”. He is the one, who made me write this book. Details in Chapter 14 – From beyond the veil.

The background picture is the Hanging Monastery (Xuankong Si), at the foot of Mt. Hengshan, 5 kilometres south of Hunyuan County, and 65 kilometres from downtown Datong City – China. When I visited the site in October 2010, I had a massive déjà vu, as if I’ve been there or lived there in one of my past lives. I felt so familiar with the surrounding. As I later found out, surprisingly it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, though it was built around 490AD. It is where the seed of “Neo-Confucianism” was planted, which flourished during the Tang & Song Dynasties and was formulated by Zhu Xi in 12^th Century.

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The Back Cover