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Chapter Sixty-Four: The Round of Birth and Death<br />

The Buddha delivers the Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings. Venerable Vakkali dies. The Buddha teaches about<br />

beginninglessness and endlessness.<br />

A. VIII, 30; S. XII, 15; S. XXII, 87; S. VX, 1; Tchong 74 (T. 26); Tsa 1265 (T. 125) ; Tseng 26, 10 (T. 125); Tseng 42, 6 (T. 125);<br />

Fo Chouo A Na Liu Pa Nien King (T. 46); Fo Chouo Pa Ta Jen Kiao King (T. 779).<br />

The Eight Realizations of the Great Beings in this chapter are taken from T. 779. They are also mentioned in several other sutras, both<br />

Southern and Northern. The story about Venerable Vakkali’s death is recounted in S. XXII, 87, in Tsa 47 (T. 125), and Tseng 19 (T. 99).<br />

The Buddha’s thoughts concerning beginninglessness and endlessness at the end of this chapter are from S. XV, 1. The parable of the<br />

arrows and the Buddha’s teaching on feelings are found in S. XXXVI, 1, 6. His teaching concerning the contemplation on feelings at the<br />

moment of dying is taken from S. XXXVI, 1, 7.

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