This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, when the narrator is a student at a Buddhist school in India. The narrator explains that he and his friends have been secretly practicing buddhism for years, but that they have been unable to do so because of their strict adherence to the strict doctrine of the Buddha. They have therefore decided to return to the school.
This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, when the narrator is a student at a Buddhist school in India. The narrator explains that he and his friends have been secretly practicing buddhism for years, but that they have been unable to do so because of their strict adherence to the strict doctrine of the Buddha. They have therefore decided to return to the school.