THE LAST MEAL OF THE BUDDHA

Upwards of a dozen scholars¹ in the past century have commented on what the Buddha ate at his Last Meal,caBC 483, and the puzzling mystifications in the evidence. The meal was served to him and his suite of monks by his host the metal-worker Cunda at Pāvā, a village that lay near Kusinārā where the...

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Published inPersephone's Quest p. 117
Main Authors R. Gordon Wasson, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Yale University Press 27.04.1988
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Summary:Upwards of a dozen scholars¹ in the past century have commented on what the Buddha ate at his Last Meal,caBC 483, and the puzzling mystifications in the evidence. The meal was served to him and his suite of monks by his host the metal-worker Cunda at Pāvā, a village that lay near Kusinārā where the Mahāparinirvāṇa – the ‘Great Decease’ as the Rhys Davidses translated it – was scheduled to take place some hours later. The canonical Pāli Text says that Cunda served his august guestsūkara-maddava, a hapax in Pāli. Walpola Rāhula, the Buddhist monk and scholar
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