“Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.”

The Jatka (From the Attainment of the Buddhaship. Also is in the Nirvana Sutta.)
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philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BC

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