The Council of Egypt Condition:Good Buddhists are surprised he championed

Buddhists are surprised he championed the revival of Nalanda University as an international project

happy to have the place to herself

With its deep probing look at the teaching profession

undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold

The Council of Egypt Condition:Good Buddhists are surprised he championedPalermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that enhances the rights of some families, rewriting Sicilian history. Over the ironies of plot and character, hangs the crueller irony of history. In the evocation of a country, its people and its traditions, this is