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# Mahaparinibbanasutta 1.18

Mahāparinibbānasutta 1.18

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.18.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.18.1)

Tatrapi sudaṃ bhagavā nāḷandāyaṃ viharanto pāvārikambavane etadeva bahulaṃ bhikkhūnaṃ dhammiṃ kathaṃ karoti:

> And while staying at Nāḷandā, too, the Buddha often gave this Dhamma talk to the mendicants:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.18.2)

“iti sīlaṃ, iti samādhi, iti paññā.

> “Such is ethics, such is immersion, such is wisdom.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.18.3)

Sīlaparibhāvito samādhi mahapphalo hoti mahānisaṃso.

> When immersion is imbued with ethics it’s very fruitful and beneficial.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.18.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.18.4)

Samādhiparibhāvitā paññā mahapphalā hoti mahānisaṃsā.

> When wisdom is imbued with immersion it’s very fruitful and beneficial.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.18.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.18.5)

Paññāparibhāvitaṃ cittaṃ sammadeva āsavehi vimuccati, seyyathidaṃ—

> When the mind is imbued with wisdom it is rightly freed from the defilements, namely,  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.18.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.18.6)

kāmāsavā, bhavāsavā, avijjāsavā”ti.

> the defilements of sensuality, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.”  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

## Translations (5)

- [Большое наставление об окончательной ниббане](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~ru-khantibalo.1.18.1) — Russian
- [Die große Lehrrede vom Erlöschen des Buddha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~de-sabbamitta.1.18.1) — German
- [Dugi govor o konačnom oslobođenju](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~sr-brankokovacevic.1.18.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-sujato.1.18.1) — English
- [The Book of the Great Decease (Mahâ-parinibbâna-suttanta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-rhysdavids1881.1.18) — English

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