クル国で説かれた重要な経で、身、受、心、法の四念処を涅槃に至る唯一の道として提示する。仏教経典の中でも最も重要な文献の一つとされ、伝統的に臨終間近の人のそばで読誦される

A major discourse taught in the Kuru country presenting the Four Foundations of Mindfulness — body, feelings, mind, and mental phenomena — as the single path to nibbāna, regarded as one of the most important texts in the Buddhist canon and traditionally recited near death.