一部於拘樓國宣說的重要經典，開示身、受、心、法四念處為通向涅槃的唯一道路，被視為佛教經典中最重要的經文之一，傳統上人們臨終時常誦此經。

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.