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"When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the dharma will come to the land of the red faces"

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"When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the dharma will come to the land of the red faces" is a quote from ~700AD that is too good to check. It is also the title of a reasonably good documentary about Tibetan Buddhism in the US. Google already said that the "iron bird" is actually the name of a year. What is the surrounding context of this quote?
Asked by MatthewMartin (7221 rep)
Dec 29, 2014, 02:23 PM
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