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Two traditional scrolls, The Secret Annals, are learned in the 1950s in a Tokyo bombsite. They purport to be the history of an anonymous 15th-century Japanese religious educator who, in a period of cultural chaos, packages out to determine enlightened culture. He commences his teaching saying: "Abstinence is no path by any means. We are betting on real love. It really is an untested way." In documents from students and spies, the history then give a romantic portrait of the charismatic leader, his teachings and the transformative trip he shares with his eccentric group of fans. The scrolls are unmasked as forgeries, but a decade later, a retired teacher becomes obsessed. Who created this hoax? And just why? To the teacher the history offer new alternatives from some sort of parallel fact. On his deathbed, he makes his American assistant promise to continue searching and translate the scrolls. The associate moves to NY. It is the time of the Vietnam Battle and the counter-culture. He has doubts about the teacher, but the world of the Secret Annals commences to seep into his life. He finds within the Prince's educating a way through this world of trackless doubt. Tantalized, he senses a new world of excited intensity just at your fingertips.
