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Chapter Eighty-One: Old Path White Clouds<br />

The people of Kusinara offer the Buddha incense, flowers, and music. Venerable Mahakassapa leads five hundred bhikkhus to the<br />

Buddha’s funeral. Several delegations from different kingdoms receive relics of the Buddha to place in stupas. Mahakassapa organizes a<br />

council to compile all the precepts and sutras in Rajagaha. Venerable Svasti returns to Uruvela and gazes at the shore of the Neranjara<br />

River and the <strong>white</strong> <strong>clouds</strong> in the sky.<br />

Mahaparinibbana Sutta (D. 16); Tch’ang 2 (T. 1); Fo Pan Ni Yuan King (T. 5).<br />

Details concerning the Buddha’s funeral and the dividing of his relics are taken from D. 16 and T. 5.<br />

Sanskrit Equivalents of Pali Names and Places

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