The holy man from Koya ended his story here and did not try to draw a moral from it, but as we went our separate ways the following morning and he set out over the snowy mountains, I stood and watched his holy figure disappear through the falling snow as he wended his way up the mountain road. I had the impression that he had simply dissolved among the clouds.

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