Chapter 1
The lama explains the Wheel and his Search for the River of the Arrow that washed away the Buddha's sin.
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From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The lama's Buddhist quest to escape the Wheel of Things via the Middle Way runs counter to Kim's joyful entanglement with the world; the two visions form the novel's spiritual dialectic.
Chapter 15
The lama achieves enlightenment and renounces it to save Kim: 'I meditated a thousand thousand years, passionless, well aware of the Causes of all Things.'
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