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Tibet, 15th Century
Tibet, 15th Century


He who, having traversed this miry, perilous,
and delusive round of exis­tence,
who has crossed over, and reached the other shore,
who is meditative, calm, free from doubt,
and, clinging to nothing, has attained to nibbāna:
him do I call a holy one.
(Dpd 414)



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