Volshebnyy monastyr'

V svoih knigah `Kozhnyy soskob` (`The Dermis Probe`), `Mysliteli Vostoka` (`Thinkers of the East`), `Skazki dervishey` (`Tales of the Dervishes`) i drugih Idris Shah svel voedino pritchi, vot uzhe okolo tysyachi let ispol'zuemye mudrecami Central'noy Azii dlya illyustracii svoih obuchayuschih metodov. `Volshebnyy monastyr'` otlichaetsya ot predshestvuyuschih sbornikov tem, chto vklyuchaet ne tol'ko istorii tradicionnye (imeyuschie istochnikom kak pis'mennuyu, tak i ustnuyu tradiciyu i preimuschestvenno ranee ne publikovavshiesya), no i napisannye samim avtorom - s tem, chtoby dopolnit' i pridat' zavershennost' `kursu nelineynogo myshleniya` v veke dvadcatom.