![]() ![]() ![]() They had opened their eyes five days after they were born, and by the seventh day they had been clambering over everything. Perhaps the cave really was a special place, because the week-old pups had been bursting with health and full of life. More recently, a jackal had made this cave her den and given birth to a pair of pups: one male, one female. The local people call it Buddha Belly Cave because it reminds them of the big round belly of the laughing Buddha Maitreya, and because they have heard the story of the Ming dynasty monk who spent ten years in the cave, reciting sutras. Behind the bushes at the foot of one of the mountains, there is a little hole in the rock that opens into a big cave. ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.įar away in the remote west of China, close to the Tibetan border and the monasteries of Shangri-La, snow-covered mountains rise above lush grassland. ![]() The moral rights of the author have been assertedĪ CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British LibraryĪll rights reserved. First published in paperback in Great Britain 2012Ĭopyright in the English translation © Helen Wang 2012 ![]()
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