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BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM.
At Benares he recovers his five original disciples, but it does not appear that they are appointed to succeed him: on the contrary, Buddha addressed these words, it is said, to Mahá Kásyapa, Ánanda, and the Bodhisattwa Maitreya: "Friends! the Supreme Intelligence, perfect and full, which I have acquired in a hundred thousand millions of kalpas, I deposit in your hands. Do you yourselves receive this part of the Law, teach it fully in detail to others.” He then praises the Sútra, the Lalita Vistara, after which, “the sons of the gods, the Maheswaras, and the rest of the gods, the Suddhakávásakáyikas, Maitreya, and all the other Bodhisattwas, Mahásattwas, Mahá Kásyapa, and the rest of the Mahá Srávakas, Ananda, and the worlds of the gods, of men, of Asuras, of Gandharbas, rejoiced, and praised aloud the instructions of Bhagavan *.”
As the Lalita Vistara is attributed to Sakya himself, it cannot contain any account of his death. For this we must have recourse to the Maha Parinirvana Sútras, of which we have only the Tibetan translation, in the eighth and two following volumes of the Nya division of the Do Class of the Kahgyur, and of which Csoma has given us on abridged translation; we have it also in the life of Sakya in the Mongol, as translated by Klaproth in the Asia Polyglotta, and we have what is no doubt the same work in Páli, the Parinibbáňa Suttam, a section of the Digha nikayo, of which Mr. Turnour has given us an analysis (J. A.
* [Rgya tch'er rol pa, II, p. 406 f.]
