For the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra see Nirvana Sutra.
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Mahaparinibbana Sutta is a Buddhist
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of the
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. It concerns the end of
Gautama BuddhaSiddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...
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and is the longest sutta of the
Pali CanonThe Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. It is the only completely surviving early Buddhist canon, and one of the first to be written down...
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Because of its attention to detail, it has been resorted to as the principal source of reference in most standard studies of the Buddha's life.
- "Maha-parinibbana Sutta," Translated from the Pali by Sister Vajira & Francis Story
- "Mahaparinibbana-sutta and Cullavagga," article by Louis Finot
Louis Finot was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised.Bachelor of law and in letters, Louis...
, published in the "Indian Historical Quarterly" (8:2, 1932 June 1, pp.
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For the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra see Nirvana Sutra.
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The
Mahaparinibbana Sutta is a Buddhist
sutraSūtra , literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism , or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual...
in the
Digha NikayaThe Digha Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the first of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism...
of the
TripitakaThe ' is the Sanskrit term used by Westerners for a Buddhist canon of scriptures. Asian Buddhists of the Theravada Buddhist school use the term Tipitaka to refer to the Pali Canon...
. It concerns the end of
Gautama BuddhaSiddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...
's
lifeLife is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have self-sustaining biological processes from those that do not—either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as "inanimate."In biology, the science of living organisms, "life"...
and is the longest sutta of the
Pali CanonThe Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. It is the only completely surviving early Buddhist canon, and one of the first to be written down...
.
Because of its attention to detail, it has been resorted to as the principal source of reference in most standard studies of the Buddha's life.
External links
- "Maha-parinibbana Sutta," Translated from the Pali by Sister Vajira & Francis Story
- "Mahaparinibbana-sutta and Cullavagga," article by Louis Finot
Louis Finot was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised.Bachelor of law and in letters, Louis...
, published in the "Indian Historical Quarterly" (8:2, 1932 June 1, pp. 241-46), concerning the Mahaparinibbana Sutta and a related text.
- "Did Buddha die of mesenteric infarction?" by Ven. Dr. Mettanando Bhikkhu, a Thai monk and former medical doctor, published in the "Bangkok Post" (2000 May 17).