On Vulture Peak at Rājagaha the Buddha often teaches the monks about virtue, concentration and wisdom (keeping the precepts, meditation and insight). This discourse recurs at many points of the last journey as recorded in the texts of the Southern tradition; its record at this stage is found only in the Pali canon of the Southern tradition. Pali Canon
Different Accounts
The Chinese Youxing jing places the same discourse in the Bamboo Grove; the Chinese Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, the Bannihuan jing and the Tibetan Vinaya place it in a small village after the crossing of the Ganges, not at Rājagaha.
Dating
Year 45 after the Awakening, the Buddha aged seventy-nine to eighty, before the ; inferred from the sequence of events, only the year is known.
Related Entries
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Research Notes: Reliability, Dating and Sources
- How Reliability Is Assessed
Recorded only in the Pali canon of the Southern tradition. Recorded by one school.
- Dating Evidence and Precision
Inferred from the sequence of events (neither the canonical texts nor the commentaries give the time; the year is worked out from the order of this event and those around it). Time precision: year only.
Sources
- 藏譯（德格版）德格版 D6 da 239a5–239a6
- Pali Canon巴利 DN 16:1.12.1–1.12.6
- 大正藏大正藏 T01 no.1 p.12a