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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The neat separation many of us make in our minds between Eastern and Western religion and culture belies many common historical origins and interconnections. We…
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