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Images Of India
In The Footsteps Of The Buddha - October 2009
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20th October VARANASI (Benares)

Ganges  Ganges
Views from rooftop restaurant

21st October Autorickshaw to Sarnath (16 km)

Street scene   Street scene

SARNATH - place of the Buddha's first teachings

Bell at Sarnath  Bodhi tree
Large bell & the Bodhi Tree at the Mulagandhakuti Vihara outside the deer park enclosure
The tree is another 2nd generation sapling from the original tree at Bodhgaya

Stupa   Stupa
The Dhamekh Stupa or Dharma Chakra (C5-6th CE) from the S built on the spot where the Buddha
delivered his first sermon teaching the Four Noble Truths & The Eightfold Path

The deer park enclosure

Ruins at Sarnath  Ruins at sarnath
Ruins of the monasteries at the deer park including (left) the Dharmarajuka Stupa
built by Emperor Ashoka to contain relics of the Buddha

Stupa  Stupa detail
The Dharma Chakra from the W / Niche which would have contained a  Buddhist image

Ruins   Ruins
More views of the deer park enclosure

Columns   Asoka's column
The lower portion of the C3rd BCE column (right) erected by Emperor Ashoka
originally about 15 m high with a lion capital (now in the museum)
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