The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fifth Chapter for Recitation
1) (Thinking): ‘Here the Realised One was born’, 144 Ānanda, (that) is
a place to be seen that produces enthusiasm for a faithful man of
good family.
2) (Thinking): ‘Here the Realised One awoke to the unsurpassed and
Perfect Awakening’, 145 Ānanda, (that) is a place to be seen that
produces enthusiasm for a faithful man of good family.
3) (Thinking): ‘Here the Realised One set rolling the Wheel of the
Teaching’, 146 Ānanda, (that) is a place to be seen that produces
enthusiasm for a faithful man of good family.
4) (Thinking): ‘Here the Realised One was completely Emancipated in
the Emancipation-element which has no basis for attachment
remaining’, 147 Ānanda, (that) is a place to be seen that produces
enthusiasm for a faithful man of good family.
These are the four places, Ānanda, that are to be seen that produce
enthusiasm for a faithful man of good family.
144 At Lumbinī, just north-east of Kapilavatthu, now just inside Nepal.
145 At Uruvelā in Magadhā, south of Rājagaha, on the banks of the River
Nerañjanā.
146 At Isipatana, just north of Bārāṇasī (modern Varanasi).
147 At Kusinārā, somewhat south of the Buddha's home town of Kapilavatthu.
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