35a: List of Rains Retreats – 1180
Rains Retreats alternately at Pubbārāma and Jetavana monasteries in
Sāvatthī.
45. The Buddha spent the last Rains Retreat at the village of Veḷuva when
on the verge of his Parinibbāna, making a total of 45 Rains Retreats
(
Vassa
) spent variously at fifteen places in the course of 45 years before
crossing over to the other shore at the age of 80.
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