觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊 2.104

2.104

Second, the place of nirvāṇa. The place is in his native country, in his native village, where his father was named Bāvari, his place of original birth. Śākyamuni Buddha was born in the country of Kapilavastu and entered cessation in the country of Kuśinagara, symbolizing that his conditions for transformation here were finished, and he would teach and transform in other directions. The Garbhāvakrānti-sūtra, fascicle two, says: 'My body now ceases, and will not take birth again in Jambudvīpa. In the ten directions throughout thirty-two koṭis of buddha-kṣetras I shall perform buddha-work everywhere.' Because these conditions here were exhausted, whereas those were not exhausted. Maitreya entering cessation at his place of original birth is because these conditions are not yet exhausted, symbolizing that he ceases here and will later be born here to practice benefiting others.