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Year 16 after the Awakening
The Buddha at 50
This year the Buddha is fifty (reckoned from an awakening at thirty-five). According to the later commentaries, the Buddha first tames the yakkha Āḷavaka (a yakkha living at Āḷavī; yakkhas are a class of spirits) at Āḷavī, bringing many people to the , and then keeps the at Āḷavī. The exchange with the yakkha Āḷavaka recorded in the canonical texts carries no year itself; the year is given by the later commentaries. This year also lists a group of discourses and rules set at Āḷavī but without a year, as events that may belong to this year.
The Rains Retreat
The rains retreat is kept at Āḷavī; the in the later commentaries says the Buddha first tamed the yakkha Āḷavaka, bringing eighty-four thousand people to liberation, and then kept the retreat here. The Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing instead records a return this year to the country of Kapilavatthu.
