Ānanda

Ānanda

The Buddha's cousin; the Buddha's attendant

Category: Monks (bhikkhus)

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Year 5 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 39

Mahāpajāpatī goes forth, and the community of nuns is founded

Year 11 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 45

The Buddha leaves the Pārileyyaka forest and returns to Sāvatthī

Year 11 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 45

The quarrelling monks of Kosambī come to Sāvatthī to admit their fault

Year 12 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 46

In the famine, the Buddha and his disciples live on horses' barley through the rains retreat

Year 12 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 46

The retreat ends, and the Buddha takes leave of the brahmin and accepts his offering

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

King Ajātasattu sends a minister to ask about attacking the Vajjians

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha teaches several sets of conditions for the non-decline of the Sangha

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha predicts that Pāṭaliputta will become a great city

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Nādikā: the Buddha teaches the “Mirror of the Dhamma”

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha keeps his last rains retreat at Beluva village

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Gravely ill during the retreat, the Buddha tells his disciples to rely on the Dhamma

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha relinquishes the life force and announces that he will pass away in three months

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha explains the eight causes of earthquakes and reproaches Ānanda

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The earth quakes again, and the Buddha explains the causes of earthquakes

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Fetching water on the way: the muddy water turns clear

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Pukkusa the Malla presents robes of cloth of gold

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha's body shines, and he foretells that he will pass away this very night

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha asks Ānanda to comfort Cunda

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha gives instructions that his body be treated as a wheel-turning monarch's

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha reaches Kusinārā and lies down between the twin trees

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha asks Upavāṇa to step aside

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha names the four sacred places worthy of pilgrimage

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Ānanda asks how monastics should behave towards women

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Ānanda weeps, and the Buddha praises him

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha says Kusinārā was once the capital of King Mahāsudassana

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Mallas of Kusinārā come to pay homage to the Buddha

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The last disciple, Subhadda, goes forth

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

The Buddha speaks his last words and passes away (final nirvana)

After the passing · After the Buddha's final nirvana

Gods and disciples speak verses, and Anuruddha stops the weeping

After the passing · After the Buddha's final nirvana

Ānanda goes into the city to inform the Mallas

Events known only to fall within a span of years

The various accounts of “within twenty years of the Awakening”

Events known only to fall within a span of years

Ānanda becomes the Buddha's permanent attendant

Events known only to fall within a span of years

The Buddha ceases to recite the rules himself

Events known only to fall within a span of years

Mahāpajāpatī and five hundred nuns pass away

Events known only to fall within a span of years

Ānanda attends the Buddha for twenty-five years

Events known only to fall within a span of years

A journey in the Malla country to Pāvā and Ātumā recorded in the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya