Year 28 after the Awakening

The Rains Retreat

According to the later commentaries, in his later years the Buddha makes the Jetavana and the Eastern Park at Sāvatthī his fixed places for the rains retreat, and this year is spent there too; the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing also says the Buddha kept the rains retreat in the country of Sāvatthī for nineteen years, this year counting as the third of them.