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== Teaching == | == Teaching == | ||
[[File:1200px-Dhamekh Stupa, where the Buddha gave the first sermon on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to his five disciples, Sarnath.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Sarnath, India, the stupa marking the site where Gautama preached his first sermon]] | [[File:1200px-Dhamekh Stupa, where the Buddha gave the first sermon on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to his five disciples, Sarnath.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Sarnath, India, the [[stupa]] marking the site where Gautama preached his first sermon]] | ||
Contemplating whom he should first teach, he decided to return to the five ascetics who had left him. He began a journey of over one hundred miles to Benares and delivered to his old companions his first sermon, known as the ''Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta'', or “Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth.” | Contemplating whom he should first teach, he decided to return to the five ascetics who had left him. He began a journey of over one hundred miles to Benares and delivered to his old companions his first sermon, known as the ''Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta'', or “Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth.” | ||