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Description	Painting of the first teaching Buddha Gautama gave after his enlightenment, at the Deer Park in Sarnath, India (close to Varanasi). The five monks in the foreground are his five old friends, who suspected that Buddha would attain enlightenment and stayed close to him, but subsequently lost faith in him when he abandoned the practice of extreme asceticism, just before his attainment of enlightenment. The teaching he gives here is most probably the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta.
Source	own work
Date	may 2006
Author	myself
Permission	see below

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