Deer Park’s Connections

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Associated with

• First Sermon

  The First Sermon was delivered at the Deer Park in Sarnath, where the Buddha found the five ascetics and spoke the words that established the sangha and set the dharma in motion.

• Gautama Buddha

  Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, at the Deer Park in Sarnath. There he taught the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to five ascetics who became his first disciples, setting the wheel of dharma in motion.