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Mahāparinibbāna Sutta

The sixteenth sutta of the Dīghanikāya. It contains a more or less detailed account of the last year of the Buddha’s life. It also contains, besides other matters:

• a prophecy of the greatness of Pāṭaliputta,
• the contemplated attack on the Vajjī  by Ajātasattu,
• details of the seven conditions of welfare of the Order,
• the lineage of faith (ariyavaṃsa),
• eight causes of earthquakes,
• the last meal of the Buddha,
• the four places of pilgrimage,
• the four great authorities (mahāpadesā),
• the obsequies of a king,
• the erection of shrines (cetiya),
• the previous history of Kusinārā,
• the Buddha’s death and cremation,
• the distribution of the Relics by Doṇa, and
• the erection of the Thūpas over the Relics. D.ii.72 ff.