一部于拘楼国宣说的重要经典，开示身、受、心、法四念处为通向涅槃的唯一道路，被视为佛教经典中最重要的经文之一，传统上人们临终时常诵此经。

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.