“For the sake of all beings I have made this body pleasureless. Let them continually beat it, revile it, and cover it with filth. Let them play with my body. Let them laugh at it and ridicule it. What does it matter to me? I have given my body to them.”

— Šantidéva

§ 3.12
Bodhicaryavatara, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life

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8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685–763

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