• Mahāparinibbāna Sutta

The sixteenth sutta of the Dīgha Nikāya. It contains a more or less detailed account of the last year of the Buddha's life. It also contains, besides other matter,

• a prophecy of the greatness of Pātaliputta and
• the contemplated attack on the Vajjians by Ajātasattu,
• details of the seven conditions of welfare of the Order,
• the lineage of faith (ariyavamsa),
• eight causes of earthquake,
• the last meal of the Buddha,
• the four places of pilgrimage,
• the four great authorities (mahāpadesa),
• the obsequies of a king,
• the erection of cetiyas,
• the previous history of Kusinārā,
• the Buddha's death and cremation,
• the distribution of the Relics by Dona, and
• the erection of the Thūpas over the Relics. D.ii.72ff.