A discourse in which the Buddha’s nephew Tissa complains to him that the monks abuse him.

A discourse in which the Buddha, using an allegory, teaches his discontented nephew Tissa how to attain nibbāna.

A discourse in which Mahā-Moggallāna questions the Brahmā Tissa about cessation with and without remainder, and the Buddha then completes the teaching Tissa had left out.