Who has not heard of the famous Shaolin Monastery, the cradle of martial arts? The emperor himself favors shaven-headed monks - warriors in saffron cassocks, whose hands, with images of a tiger and a dragon burned out on them, inevitably create the policy of the Celestial Empire. But strange things happen sometimes in this busy world of Yellow Dust... China of the 15th century appears in the book as bright, lively and extremely realistic. Skillfully combining the traditions of a picaresque novel with the techniques of modern prose, subtle irony and high tragedy, a dynamic plot in the spirit of Journey to the West with original philosophical ideas, the authors achieve that the rotation of the Wheel of Karma appears before the reader in a completely new light.