Mahāparinibbāna Sutta
Sutta narrating the Mahaparinibbana of Gautama Buddha / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Mahayana sutra, see Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra.
The Mahāparinibbāna Sutta is Sutta 16 in the Dīgha Nikāya, a scripture belonging to the Sutta Piṭaka of Theravāda Buddhism. It concerns the end of Gautama Buddha's life - his parinibbāna - and is the longest sutta of the Pāli Canon. Because of its attention to detail, it has been resorted to as the principal source of reference in most standard accounts of the Buddha's death.[1][full citation needed]