Dear Frank, thank you. However, I think you have gone too much into the details, and the narrative. ;-)

I am surprised you don't read Chinese. Isn't Kuan a Chinese surname?


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, frank wrote:

The only thing I know about Buddha's final moments are from parinibbana sutta and mahaparinibbana sutta.