Maha Parinibbana Sutra 9.4:
In the Pali Maha Parinibbana Sutra, the Buddha says, “When these (four) noble truths are grasped and known, the craving for existence is rooted out, what leads to renewed existence is destroyed, and there is no more birth.” (2)
Maha Parinibbana Sutra 13.2:
Just before the Great Decease (Maha Parinibana
Sutra?), Manjushri asked the Buddha not to enter Nirvana but to continue turning
the Wheel of the Dharma. The Bhagavan replied, “I have been among you for
forty-nine years, and yet I have not spoken a single word. You ask me to
continue turning the Wheel of the Dharma. But have I, in fact, ever turned the
Wheel of the Dharma? Listen to my gatha: ‘From the time I found the Path [at
Bodhgaya] / until I reached the Vati River [at Kushinagara] / between the one
place and the other / I spoke not a single word.’”