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Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Final Extinguishment)
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Mahaparinibbana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Final Extinguishment)
Mahāparinibbāna Sutta
It narrates the Buddha's last journey from Rajagaha to Kusinara: the advice to the Vajji state, the exhortation to be "an island and refuge unto oneself", the relinquishing of the life force, Cunda's meal, the ordination of Subhadda, the refusal to name a successor and the last words, followed by cremation and the division of relics. It is the source of the Buddha's last words and of the cult of relics and pilgrimage.
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Authorship note
Discourse 16 of the Digha Nikaya, the longest in the canon. It is a narrative composition by the community gathering teachings attributed to the Buddha in his last months; it has parallels in Sanskrit (ed. Waldschmidt), in the Chinese Dirgha Agama and in the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya.
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English
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
The Great Discourse on the Buddha's Extinguishment (DN 16)
The Conscious LibraryThe Great Discourse on the Buddha's Extinguishment (DN 16)
SuttaCentral, 2018
Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato
CC0.
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
The Book of the Great Decease (Buddhist Suttas, Sacred Books of the East, vol. XI)
The Conscious LibraryThe Book of the Great Decease (Buddhist Suttas, Sacred Books of the East, vol. XI)
Clarendon Press, 1881
Translation: T. W. Rhys Davids
Dominio público.
Deutsch
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Das Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra
The Conscious LibraryDas Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra
Akademie-Verlag, 1950
Translation: Ernst Waldschmidt
Edición crítica del texto sánscrito y tibetano con traducción del paralelo chino; 3 vols., 1950–1951.
Other works by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Tipitaka, the Pali Canon ("Three Baskets") · 25
- Digha Nikaya (The Long Discourses) · 25
- Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses) · 25
- Samyutta Nikaya (The Connected Discourses) · 25
- Anguttara Nikaya (The Numerical Discourses) · 25
- Dhammapada (Verses on the Dhamma) · 25
- Sutta Nipata (The Group of Discourses) · 25
- Udana (Inspired Utterances) · 25
- Vinaya Pitaka (The Basket of Discipline) · 25
- The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in Motion · 25
- The Sutra in Forty-Two Sections · 150
- The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapundarika) · 100
- The Diamond Sutra · 300
- The Heart Sutra · 650
- The Lankavatara Sutra · 400
- Itivuttaka (Thus It Was Said) · 25
- Khuddakapatha (The Minor Readings) · 25
- Jataka (Stories of the Buddha's Former Births) · 25
- Satipatthana Sutta (Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness) · 25
- Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self) · 25
- Kalama Sutta (Discourse to the Kalamas) · 25
- Pure Land Sutras (Sukhavativyuha) · 150
- Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Ornament Sutra) · 400
Sources
- Walshe, Maurice (trad.). The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya. Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1995 (DN 14 Mahāpadāna Sutta; DN 16 Mahāparinibbāna Sutta). ISBN 9780861711031.
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