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Buddha then entered into meditation, deeper and deeper, until
his mind was purely balanced and steadily focused. And then
he passed away. Thus, the Buddha, the Blessed One, had attained
that final freedom known as nirvana. Soon after the death
of the Buddha a meeting of 500 arahants was held to collect
together all his teachings. They were memorised and handed
down from one generation of monks to the next. In this way,
the teachings of the Buddha were not lost, and we can still
hear them today. |
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