Page 9 - Little Stories of a Great Monk

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m e n s e b e n e f i t s t o t h e B u d d h i s t w o r l d a n d t o a l l s e n t i e n t b e i n g s .
Henceforth, many undergraduates
Henceforth, many undergraduates
came to learn the Dhamma.
came to learn the Dhamma .
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