| Author Quoted | Dalai Lama | 
		
			| Title Quoted | Introduction to Buddhism | 
		
			| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/11/07 | 
		
			| Imprint | New Delhi : Tibet House. 1965 | 
		
			| Quotation | "Know the sufferings although there is nothing to know; relinquish the causes of misery although there is nothing to relinquish; be earnest in cessation although there is nothing to cease; practise the means of cessation though there is nothing to practise." [Note 56: The Buddha, as quoted in the Dalai Lama's pamphlet An Introduction to Buddhism (New Delhi: Tibet House, 1965), 8.] | 
		
			| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 264 | 
		
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