THE EIGHT PLACES OF BUDDHIST PILGRIMAGE •  Lumbini •  Bodhgaya •  Sarnath •  Rajgir •  Shravasti •  Sankashya •  Nalanda • Kushinagar

THE FOUR HOLY PLACES...
Bhikshus, after my passing away, if all the sons and daughters of good family and the faithful, so long as they live, go to the four holy places, they should go and remember: here at Lumbini the enlightened one was born ; here at Bodhgaya he attained enlightennent ; here at Sarnath he turned twelve wheels of Dharma ; and here at Kushinagar he entered parinirvana.

Bhikshus, after my passing away there will be activities such as circumambulation of these places and prostration to them. Thus it should be told, for they who have faith in my deeds and awareness of their own will travel to higher states.

After my passing away, the new bhikshus who come and ask of the doctrine should be told of these four places and advised that a pilgrimage to them will help purify their previously accumulated negative karmas, even the five heinous actions.