Sarnath, India Travel Blogs

Travels with Two Buddhas: Turning the Dharma Wheel
Dec 20, 2006 (14 photos)

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
Dec 31, 2007 (26 photos)

... 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
Sep 18, 2007 (9 photos)

 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 artitcts

BUDDHA VERSUS KINGFISHER BEER
Apr 14, 2007

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 train ...

Sarnath - Varanasi English
Oct 22, 2007 (9 photos)

... 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 Buddha as ...

Méditation et tour du monde du Bouddisme à Sarnath
Jan 18, 2008 (30 photos)

Après l'agitation de Varanasi, je suis allé à Sarnath, à environ 10km de Varanasi, pour suivre un cours de méditation Vipassana.  Vipassana signifie voir les choses telles qu'elles sont réellement. C'est une des plus anciennes techniques de méditation ...

Buddha's First Teaching
Feb 28, 2008

... 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 will ...

Sarnath, birthplace of Buddhism
Dec 22, 2007 (12 photos)

... 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
Aug 18, 2008 (5 photos)

... to hire your own vehicle. The town also boasts the largest number of horse drawn carriages or tongas anywhere in India. Cyclopean walls: Entering Rajgir from Bodh Gaya one glimpses the remains of the Cyclopean walls which extend from the east to the ...

Sarnath & the Alice Project
Dec 7, 2007 (31 photos)

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 ...

Buddha's first sermon!
Nov 26, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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 temples ...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Teachings
Jan 5, 2009

coming soon!

The First Sermon
Sep 7, 2008 (3 photos)

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 ...

Commentary on the Awakening Mind
Dec 20, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...