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Posted: 13 Oct 2025

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Pilgrims walk around the stupa in the deer park at Saranath, near Varanasi in northern India, where the buddha preached his first sermon.

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 Dinesh
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Four great sites of pilgrimage are recommended to followers of the Buddha, all clustered in the north-east of the Indian subcontinent Lumbini in Nepal, where the Buddha was born; Kushinagar, in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, where he died; Bodh Gaya, in India’s Bihar state, home of the Bodhi tree under which he attained enlightenment; and finally, just few kilometers south-east of the great Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi, lies the deer park at Saranath, where the enlightened Buddha gave his first teachings, the spot now marked as an enormous circular stupa on which – in spite of signs forbidding it – pilgrims stick small sheets of gold leaf. Devdutt pattanaik, who writes on Indian religious life, strikes a note very close to Eamon Duffy’s:

“I think that by walking this trail you connect yourself with the Buddha. Human beings are not comfortable just with ideas. We need something tangible. We ned to link ideas to things we can touch and feel, or to a place or time. A river or a mountain or a deer park is a physical reality, the very place where the Buddha lived and walked and breathed. We need that tangibility to come into touch with the divine.” ~ Pag 210
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