Joe Blogs - Sarnath
January 23rd 2012 Today we visited Sarnath. This is a deer park just north of Varanasi and is where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon after receiving enlightenment. There's a beautiful Buddhist temple here, but the most dramatic sight here has to be Dharmakh stupa (a "stupa" is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics) which marks the very spot from where He gave the sermon. For Buddhists, this is one
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