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Travels with Two Buddhas: Turning the Dharma Wheel

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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Two thousand five hundred years ago at Sarnath, then just known as Deer Park, the Buddha gave his first sermon to five ascetics: Kondanna, Vappa, Bhaddiya, Mahanama and Assaji. These five, who abandoned Siddhartha earlier to pursue their own ways, ...

Following Buddha's footsteps

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... is best. But the other rooms have nifty carvings and jars and the like that got dug up in the resurrection of Sarnath. On the way back to Varanasi our rickshaw driver tried to squeeze two other adult tourists into the tiny back seat for ...

Sarnath

A travel blog entry by jagadish

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I'm still in Varanasi and had some time to kill before I catch the train. I just returned from Sarnath where Buddha preached his first sermon after enlightenment. There was a musem and garden there. The musem had ...

mudanca de humor e templos budistas

A travel blog entry by betuca

... na minha propria experiencia, certo? De qualquer forma, adequando meu texto para possiveis sensibilidade de alguns leitores e cirticos, Sarnath tinha pouca relacao com a minha atual imagem de uma "cidade indiana". A principal atracao da cidade eh um ...

BUDDHA VERSUS KINGFISHER BEER

A travel blog entry by sgaudun

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Before catching the train back to home base in New Delhi, I took a trip to the holy city of Sarnath--famous for being the place where Buddha gave his first sermon. It was mildly interesting and it helped me pass the time before my evening ...

Sarnath - Varanasi English

A travel blog entry by raquel_chiel

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... where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where the Buddhist Sangha came into existence through the enlightenment of Kondanna. Sarnath is located 13 kilometres north-east of Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Isipatana is mentioned by the ...

M�ditation et tour du monde du Bouddisme � Sarnath

A travel blog entry by z00b

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Apr�s l'agitation de Varanasi, je suis all� � Sarnath, � environ 10km de Varanasi, pour suivre un cours de m�ditation Vipassana. Vipassana signifie voir les choses telles qu'elles sont r�ellement. C'est une des plus anciennes techniques ...

Buddha's First Teaching

A travel blog entry by rvalenzi

... , give them a pen (not really sure what the value is here for them but I am making it my mission over the next 2 weeks in India to find out), or buy them some chocolates. But if you do this---as I've found out being the sucker that I am---word ...

Sarnath, birthplace of Buddhism

A travel blog entry by schwate

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... sind, das hat sich definitiv zum schlechten gewandelt hier in Indien). Habe dann am Nachmittag einen Ausflug nach Sarnath gemacht, eine der vier heiligsten buddhistischen Staedte, da hier Buddhismus als Religion begruendet wurde. Buddha hat hier seine ...

buddha

A travel blog entry by kulyash.sharma

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... of the Vinaya, received ordination in Bodhgaya. As elsewhere, neglect and desolation followed the muslim invasion of northern India. However, extensive repairs and restoration of the temple and environs in the fourteenth century by the Burmese and ...

Sarnath & the Alice Project

A travel blog entry by schnitz

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Wanting to escape the hectic life in Varanasi, Gisele and I moved to the little town of Sarnath just outside of Varanasi - the place where Buddha gave his first teachings. We're staying at a small guesthouse called Namo Buddha, run by an elderly German ...

Oh the Noise

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

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... the Dharma'. It was classed as one of the most very holy sites and the place of the first 'teachings’. Sarnath had become as a place of mass pilgrimage, both for Buddhists from India and abroad. A number of countries in which ...

Buddha's first sermon after enlightenment

A travel blog entry by rapula

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... today that the 4 headed lion of India (on the flag) is a Buddhist symbol, as I saw the original in the museum at Sarnath ... they were on top of a column erected around 300 BC to mark this sight of Buddha's first sermon ... so funnily ... India's ...

Commentary on the Awakening Mind

A travel blog entry by ksunderhill

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... so much compassion for all. The next few days we spent at the teachings, wandering the stupas, temples, and monasteries around Sarnath and getting to know two Tibetan monks we had befriended. Walking the streets of Sarnath washed away all the chaos ...

Buddha's first sermon!

A travel blog entry by alonandjenny

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... of four sites of pilgrimage. Three sites are in the Ganges Valley of India and one is in Lumbini, Nepal. You could also call Sarnath a temple city because there are many modern temples built here. Korea, Japan, Thailand, Burma, China, and Tibet all have ...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Teachings

A travel blog entry by schnitz

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Sarnath Stuff

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... the eons? It's the center of the world! Sarnath just doesn't have that same crackling energy. But more importantly, Sarnath doesn't have decent baked goods. Yeah, you heard me - baked goods. The restaurant choices here are slim ...

Day 4 - Varanasi &Sarnath

A travel blog entry by luongdd

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... Tibetan University nearby. Here there are ruins dating back to the 4th and 5th century. The largest surviving monument in Sarnath is the Dhamakh Stupa. This is 143 ft high and 748 ft in diameter at the base and built around 500 A.D. It ...

The First Sermon

A travel blog entry by brettpaton

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Today I took a day trip to Sarnath, only 15 Km outside of Varanasi, because it plays an important role in Buddhist history. It was here that the newly enlightened Buddha came to give is first lessons. This however was around 600 B.C. and somewhere ...

14th Nov 2011

A travel blog entry by amnesiauk

... it has to be said has been more relaxing with my stress from yesterday not showing face. I took a cycle rickshaw to Sarnath,a Buddhist pilgrimage where the Buddha after achieving enlightenment gave his first ever sermon which set in motion the ...

A tale of two guesthouses

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... 't go into them. Just don't even think of staying there...unless you really want to appreciate Agrawal. By the time I left Sarnath Guest House, I was pretty dejected. But then I got to Agrawal. I went from the worst guest house I've ever ...

My social studies teacher would be proud

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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I get up at 4:45 because my guesthouse manager, Saif, pesters me into accepting a 5:15 tuk tuk ride, so I can get to the station by 6:00, when I know that my 7:00 train is virtually guaranteed to be late (we left the station at 8:00). But he was ...

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mudanca de humor e templos budistas

BUDDHA VERSUS KINGFISHER BEER

Sarnath - Varanasi English

M�ditation et tour du monde du Bouddisme � Sarnath

Buddha's First Teaching

Sarnath, birthplace of Buddhism

buddha

Sarnath & the Alice Project

Oh the Noise

Buddha's first sermon after enlightenment

Commentary on the Awakening Mind

Buddha's first sermon!

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Teachings

Sarnath Stuff

Day 4 - Varanasi &Sarnath

The First Sermon

14th Nov 2011

A tale of two guesthouses

My social studies teacher would be proud