Student’s information:

Student name: Do Van Quan

Dhamma name: Quang Ngo
Student number: 12145
Class: A2

Mahāparinibbāna sutta main contents

I. Part One: In Magadha

Place: Magadha, Nalanda
1. Conditions of a nation's welfare
1.1. To have frequent gatherings, and their meetings are well attended
1.2. To assemble and disperse peacefully and attend to their affairs in
concord
1.3. Neither to enact new decrees nor to abolish existing ones, but proceed in
accordance with their ancient constitutions
1.4. To show respect, honor, esteem, and veneration towards their elders and
think it worthwhile to listen to them
1.5. Not to refrain from abducting women and maidens of good families and
from detaining them
1.6. To show respect, honor, esteem, and veneration towards their shrines
1.7. To duly protect and guard the arahats
2. Welfare of the bhikkhus
2.1. To assemble frequently and in large numbers
2.2. To meet and disperse peacefully and attend to the affairs of the Sangha
in harmony
2.3. Not to authorize what has not been authorized already, and do not
abolish what has been authorized
2.4. To honour, respect, revere and salute the elders of long standing
2.5. Not to fall prey to desires which arise in them and lead to rebirth

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 2.6. To be devoted to forest-lodgings
2.7. To preserve their personal mindfulness
3. Seven things not to rejoice, delight
3.1. Activities
3.2. Talk
3.3. Sleep
3.4. Company
3.5. Evil desires
3.6. Mixing and associating with unwholesome friends
3.7. Not to stop halfway on account of some trifling achievement
4. Seven good qualities
4.1. Faith
4.2. Modesty
4.3. Fear of doing wrong
4.4. Learning
4.5. Aroused vigour
4.6. Established mindfulness
4.7. Wisdom
5. Seven Factors of Enlightenment
5.1. Mindfulness
5.2. Investigation of phenomena
5.3. Energy
5.4. Delight
5.5. Tranquility
5.6. Concentration
5.7. Equanimity
6. Seven perceptions
6.1. Impermanence

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 6.2. Non-self
6.3. Impurity
6.4. Danger
6.5. Overcoming
6.6. Dispassion
6.7. Cessation
7. Six conditions to be remembered
7.1. To show loving-kindness in acts of body, both openly and in private
7.2. To show loving-kindness in speech, both openly and in private
7.3. To show loving-kindness in thought, both openly and in private
7.4. To share rightful gifts with virtuous members of the community
7.5. To keep consistently, unbroken and unaltered those rules of conduct
7.6. To preserve the insight that is noble and liberating
8. The advantage of virtue, concentration, wisdom
9. The lion's roar of the Dhamma General Sariputta
10. Five perils to one of bad morality, of failure in morality
10.1. Great loss of wealth through heedlessness
10.2. A bad reputation for immorality and misconduct
10.3. Be diffident and shy in every assembly
10.4. To die confused
10.5. To arise in an evil state, a bad fate, in suffering and hell after death
11. Five advantages to one of good morality, of success in morality
11.1. To gains much wealth
11.2. A good reputation for morality and good conduct
11.3. Be confident and assurable in every assembly
11.4. To die unconfused
11.5. To arise in a good place, a heavenly world after death
12. Crossing the Ganges

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II. Part Two: The journey to Vesali
Place: Kotigama, Nadika, Vesali
1. The Four Noble Truths
2. The advantage of virtue, concentration, wisdom
3. The four specific Attainments of some disciples of the Buddha
4. The Mirror of the Dhamma
4.1. To possess unwavering faith in the Buddha
4.2. To possess unwavering faith in the Dhamma
4.3. To possess unwavering faith in the Sangha of the Lord’s disciples
5. Mindfulness and clear comprehension
6. Ambapali and the Licchavis
7. The Blessed One's severe sickness

III. Part Three: Relinquishing the will to live

Place: Vesali
1. The Blessed One's prompting
2. Mara's appeal
3. The Blessed One relinquishes his will to live
4. Eight causes of earthquakes
4.1. When a mighty wind blows, this stirs up the water, and through the
stirring-up of the water the earth quakes
4.2. When an ascetic or Brahmin who has developed psychic powers akes
the earth shudder and shake and violently quake
4.3. When a Bodhisatta descends from the Tusita Heaven, mindful and
clearly aware, into his mother’s womb
4.4. When the Bodhisatta emerges from his mother’s womb
4.5. When the Tathagata gains unsurpassed enlightenment
4.6. When the Tathagata sets in motion the Wheel of the Dhamma

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 4.7. When the Tathagata, mindful and clearly aware, renounces the life-
principle
4.8. When the Tathagata gains the Nibbānaelement without remainder
5. Eight Assemblies
5.1. Khattiyas
5.2. Brahmins
5.3. Householders
5.4. Ascetics
5.5. Devas of the Realm of the Four Great Kings
5.6. The Thirty-Three Gods
5.7. Maras
5.8. Brahmas
6. Eight stages of mastery
6.1. One, perceiving forms internally, sees external forms, limited and
beautiful or ugly, and in mastering these, one is aware that one knows and
sees them
6.2. One, perceiving forms internally, sees large forms, … sees them
6.3. One, not perceiving forms internally, sees small forms, … sees them
6.4. One, not perceiving forms internally, sees large forms, … sees them
6.5. One, not perceiving forms internally, sees forms external to himself that
are blue, … sees them
6.6. One, not perceiving forms internally, sees forms external to himself that
are yellow, … sees them
6.7. One, not perceiving forms internally, sees forms external to himself that
are red, … sees them
6.8. One, not perceiving forms internally, sees forms external to himself that
are white, … sees them
7. Eight liberations
7.1. Possessing form, one sees forms
7.2. Not perceiving material forms in oneself, one sees them outside
7.3. Thinking: “It is beautiful”, one becomes intent on it
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 7.4. By completely transcending all perception of matter, thinking: “Space is
infinite”, one enters and abides in the Sphere of Infinite Space
7.5. By transcending the Sphere of Infinite Space, thinking: “Consciousness
is infinite”, one enters and abides in the Sphere of Infinite Consciousness
7.6. By transcending the Sphere of Infinite Consciousness, thinking: “There
is no thingʺ, one enters and abides in the Sphere of No-Thingness
7.7. By transcending the Sphere of No-Thingness, one reaches and abides in
the Sphere of Neither-Perception-Nor-Non-Perception
7.8. By transcending the Sphere of Neither-Perception-Nor-Non-Perception,
one enters and abides in the Cessation of Perception and Feeling
8. Mara's former temptation
9. The appeal of Ananda
10. The last admonition
11. The thirty-seven fetters of Enlightenment
11.1. The four foundations of mindfulness
11.2. The four right efforts
11.3. The four roads to power
11.4. The five spiritual faculties
11.5. The five mental powers
11.6. The seven factors of enlightenment
11.7. The Noble Eightfold Path

IV. Part Four: The last meal

Place: Vesali, Bhandagama, Bhoganagara, Pava, Kakutta river
Main contents:
1. The elephant's look
2. The four reason why beings get rebirth
2.1. Through not understanding the Ariyan virtue
2.2. Through not understanding the Ariyan concentration
2.3. Through not understanding the Ariyan wisdom

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 2.4. Through not understanding the Ariyan emancipation
3. The importance of sila, samadhi and panna
4. The great references
4.1. A monk speaks: “Face to face with the Blessed One, brethren, I have
heard and learned thus: This is the Dhamma and the Discipline, the Master's
Dispensation”
4.2. A monk speaks: “'In an abode of such and such a name lives a
community with elders and a chief. Face to face with that community, I have
heard and learned thus from that community”
4.3. A monk speaks: “In an abode of such and such a name live several
bhikkhus who are elders, who are learned, who have accomplished their
course, who are preservers of the Dhamma, the Discipline, and the
Summaries. Face to face with those elders, I have heard and learned thus
from that community”
4.4. A monk speaks: “In an abode of such and such a name lives a single
bhikkhu who is an elder, who is learned, who has accomplished his course,
who is a preserver of the Dhamma, the Discipline, and the Summaries. Face
to face with that elder, I have heard and learned thus from that community”
5. The Buddha's last meal
6. Bringing a drink
7. On Pukkusa the Malla
8. Two occasions on which the Tathagata’s skin appears especially clear and bright
8.1. The night in which the Tathagata becomes fully enlightened in
unsurpassed, supreme Enlightenment
8.2. The night when the Tathagata comes to his final passing away into the
state of Nibbana
9. At the Kakuttha river
10. Relieving Cunda's remorse
Two alms-givings are more fruitful and profitable than all others
10.1. The alms-giving after eating which the Tathāgata attains supreme
enlightenment
10.2. The other that after which he attains the Nibbana-element without
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V. Part Five: At Kusinara
Place: Kusinara
1. The pair of Sala trees
2. The grief of the Gods
3. Ananda's concern
4. The four inspiring places
4.1. Here the Bodhisattva was born
4.2. Here the Bodhisattva attained supreme enlightenment
4.3. Here the Tathāgata set in motion the Wheel of Dhamma
4.4. Here the Tathāgata attained the Nibbāna-element without remainder
5. Question on Buddha’s remains
Persons worthy of monument
5.1. A Tathāgata, an Arahant, a fully-enlightened One
5.2. A Pacceka Buddha
5.3. A disciple of a Tathagata
5.4. A wheel-turning monarch
6. Ananda's grief
7. Ānanda’s incredible qualities
8. Teaching the Discourse on Mahāsudassana
9. The Mallas pay homage
10. On Subhadda the Wanderer
11. The Lion’s roar of the Tathāgata

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VI. Part Six: The Passing away
Place: Kusinara
1. The Buddha’s Last Words
1.1. Dhamma and discipline will be your Master
1.2. Addressing each other
1.3. To abolish lesser and minor rules
1.4. Brahmadanda to Channa
1.5. Repeatedly asking the monks to clear their doubts
2. The Full Extinguishment
3. The world's echo
4. The Rites of Venerating the Buddha’s Corpse
5. Mahākassapa’s Arrival
6. Distributing the Relics
7. Venerating the Relics

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